Johana
Johana was given to 80 girls in 2025, #2,287 among girls’ names; 6,978 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,830 Americans named Johana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johana mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Johana is “a female given name from Latin [in turn from Koine Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], variant of Johanna, equivalent to English Johanna”
/juˈhɑːna/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johana?
#2,287 among girls’ names, 2025
Johana fell from #1,915 in 2015 to #2,287 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 59.4 to 49.8 per million.
329 babies in 2005, the peak
Johana peaked in 2005, when 329 girls were given it, #790 among girls’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,287 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,739 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,952 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,163 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,036 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,041 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,881 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,619 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,538 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,871 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 106 | #1,915 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,859 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,707 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,752 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 167 | #1,377 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 224 | #1,107 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,096 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 231 | #1,119 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 296 | #916 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 311 | #860 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 329 | #790 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 235 | #1,004 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 297 | #825 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 221 | #995 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 320 | #749 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 206 | #1,020 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,391 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,407 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 152 | #1,195 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,299 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 118 | #1,393 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 131 | #1,294 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,509 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,313 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 113 | #1,417 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 164 | #1,076 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,574 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,555 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,689 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,660 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,541 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,571 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,842 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,496 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 81 | #1,495 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 121 | #1,127 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,445 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,331 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,303 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,033 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,331 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,360 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,230 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,913 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,604 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,204 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,208 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,043 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,709 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,527 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,724 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,797 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Johana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johana has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 72 years of records.
Girls and boys named Johana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johana, and how old are they?
6,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,978 Americans ever recorded as Johana. The median Johana alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 9,968 people named Johana (9,919 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,312 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 24 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 311 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,390 |
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 Johana born?
The states with the most babies named Johana are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,792 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,967 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,348 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,507 | 0.6× |
Where Johana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johana is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 2.0 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 Johana 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 202,533 babies since 1880, Johana is the fifth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 1,502 babies (5.3%), the third 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 Johana
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 Johana and names like it
- Compare Johana and JoannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJohana peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johana since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Johana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Johana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.