girls:
109.8k births since 1880
#342 (94th percentile)
boys:
306 births since 1967
#4280 (7th percentile)
overall:
110.1k births since 1880
#632 (92nd percentile)
The name Joanna is the #632 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 110,105 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #342 (94.0% percentile) for all time with 109,799 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,280 (6.6% percentile) for all time with 306 births since 1967.
Joanna has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1967 for boys).
The name Joanna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Joanna reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 88.9% percentile (ranked #88) with 1,847 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 1,847 births per million (ranked 88.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Joanna ranks #319 for girls (66.4% percentile) with 523 births per million, which is 28.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Joanna reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #677) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joanna".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Joanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.7% confident that Joanna is pronounced as joh-A-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is joh-AH-nuh, at 10.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH OW0 AE1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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