girls:
53.6k births since 1880
#551 (90th percentile)
boys:
129 births since 1973
#4457 (3rd percentile)
overall:
53.7k births since 1880
#1030 (87th percentile)
The name Johanna is the #1,030 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,739 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #551 (90.4% percentile) for all time with 53,610 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,457 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 129 births since 1973.
Johanna has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1973 for boys).
The name Johanna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Johanna reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 67.6% percentile (ranked #256) with 509 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 708 births per million (ranked 33.8% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Johanna ranks #599 for girls (36.8% percentile) with 214 births per million, which is 30.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Johanna reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #686) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johanna".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Johanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.4% confident that Johanna is pronounced as joh-HA-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-HA-nuh, at 23.9% 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 HH 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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