Ioanna
Ioanna was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,995 among girls’ names; 592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ioanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ioanna?
#5,995 among girls’ names, 2025
Ioanna rose from #7,762 in 2015 to #5,995 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 12.4 per million.
23 babies in 2016, the peak
Ioanna peaked in 2016, when 23 girls were given it, #5,693 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,995 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,143 | 8.0 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,829 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,059 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,111 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,810 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,092 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,563 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,693 | 13.0 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,762 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 19 | #6,551 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,295 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,967 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,357 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,424 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,195 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,898 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,704 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,419 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,699 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,322 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,997 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,393 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,425 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,294 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,581 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,403 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,946 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,791 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,184 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,298 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,970 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,575 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,033 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,975 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,807 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,163 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,478 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,783 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,648 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,989 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,485 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,333 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,117 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,715 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,269 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,495 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,777 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,809 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ioanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ioanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ioanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ioanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 580 Americans named Ioanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 919 people named Ioanna (916 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 513 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,767 babies since 1880, Ioanna is the seventh most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 314 babies (6.4%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ioanna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ioanna and names like it
- Compare Ioanna and IonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIoanna peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ioanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Ioanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ioanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.