Joana
Joana was given to 67 girls in 2025, #2,596 among girls’ names; 7,944 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,580 Americans named Joana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joana mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Joana is “a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Joanna”
Borrowed from Latin Joanna, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה. Doublet of Ivana, Giovana, and Jeane.
/ʒoˈɐ̃.nɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joana?
#2,596 among girls’ names, 2025
Joana fell from #2,364 in 2015 to #2,596 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.7 to 41.7 per million.
357 babies in 2001, the peak
Joana peaked in 2001, when 357 girls were given it, #698 among girls’ names. The 67 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,596 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,596 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,775 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,541 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,689 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,359 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,210 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,138 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,230 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,493 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,364 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,487 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,225 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,893 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 126 | #1,677 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,508 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 167 | #1,412 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 207 | #1,224 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 274 | #982 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 260 | #997 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 279 | #900 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 291 | #845 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 327 | #758 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 263 | #870 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 357 | #698 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 240 | #911 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 157 | #1,210 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,315 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 168 | #1,117 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 167 | #1,099 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 177 | #1,029 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 205 | #923 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 184 | #1,008 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 188 | #1,002 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 202 | #943 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 213 | #900 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 175 | #986 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 152 | #1,050 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 125 | #1,174 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 123 | #1,160 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 148 | #1,021 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 113 | #1,176 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 89 | #1,352 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 90 | #1,367 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 106 | #1,233 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 107 | #1,231 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,166 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,591 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,980 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,221 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,481 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,359 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,651 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,245 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,831 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,328 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,611 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,005 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,195 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,964 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,238 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,348 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,007 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,572 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,701 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,864 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,765 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,583 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,675 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,986 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,936 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,564 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,954 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,512 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,144 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,085 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,116 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,080 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,276 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,903 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,606 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,917 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,572 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,361 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,144 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,661 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,942 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,828 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,545 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,994 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,380 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,898 | 0.01 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 106 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joana, and how old are they?
7,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 7,944 Americans ever recorded as Joana. The median Joana alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 10,711 people named Joana (10,642 women and girls, 69 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 50 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 181 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 522 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 966 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Joana born?
The states with the most babies named Joana are California, Florida and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,694 | 2.5× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,771 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,537 | 1.6× |
Where Joana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joana is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Joana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 438,934 babies since 1880, Joana is the sixth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 1,668 babies (4.0%), the fifth 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 Joana
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 Joana and names like it
- Compare Joana and JoanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoana peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joana since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Joana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Joana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.