Joanie
Joanie was given to 63 girls in 2025, #2,731 among girls’ names; 5,549 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,850 Americans named Joanie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 41 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joanie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joanie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joanie is “a diminutive of the female given name Joan, from French.”
From Joan + -ie. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessy, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joanie?
#2,731 among girls’ names, 2025
Joanie rose from #5,557 in 2015 to #2,731 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 13.4 to 39.2 per million.
209 babies in 1957, the peak
Joanie peaked in 1957, when 209 girls were given it, #684 among girls’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,731 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,253 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,247 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,792 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,968 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,941 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,638 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,501 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,986 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,048 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,557 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,704 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,205 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,998 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,965 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,942 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,613 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,672 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,551 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,805 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,132 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,758 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,750 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,854 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,774 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,956 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,643 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,548 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,723 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,234 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,585 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,294 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,029 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,810 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,393 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,660 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,488 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,131 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,866 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,805 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,694 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,376 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 129 | #1,074 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 176 | #877 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 130 | #1,080 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 132 | #1,071 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 133 | #1,048 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 135 | #1,012 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 120 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 134 | #952 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 74 | #1,419 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,039 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,375 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,903 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,716 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,688 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 66 | #1,444 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,215 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 90 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 87 | #1,138 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 109 | #996 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 129 | #924 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 140 | #889 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 140 | #894 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 168 | #811 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 140 | #880 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 183 | #752 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 171 | #763 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 209 | #684 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 183 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 165 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 125 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 93 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 70 | #1,131 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 50 | #1,321 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,306 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,858 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,429 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 47 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,428 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,676 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,325 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,187 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,516 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,241 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,166 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,278 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,290 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,827 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,498 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,771 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,160 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,488 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joanie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joanie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joanie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joanie, and how old are they?
4,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 5,549 Americans ever recorded as Joanie. The median Joanie alive today is 52 years old; half are between 41 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 5,429 people named Joanie (5,405 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 98 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,750 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 982 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
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 Joanie born?
The states with the most babies named Joanie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 345 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 324 | #3,092 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 192 | #1,205 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 173 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 132 | #2,236 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 122 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 101 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 100 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 89 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 83 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Joanie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joanie is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1931 it was given 1.1 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 Joanie 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 379,635 babies since 1880, Joanie is the sixth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 1,333 babies (4.7%), 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 Joanie
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 Joanie and names like it
- Compare Joanie and JoanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJoanie peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joanie since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Joanie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Joanie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joanie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.