Ioana
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 33 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ioan̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ioana is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania1 in 54(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.4Kas Йоана
- ESSpain1 in 3.9Kas Joana
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ioana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54 (inferred from the name graph)
390,970 people, 2023
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Йоана in BG Bulgaria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ioana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #195 | 390,970 | 1 in 54 | 391K | Ioana | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 238,493as Joana | 1 in 888 | 270K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 12,871as Joana | 1 in 3.9K | 13K | Ioana | 36 |
| US United States | — | 10,711as Joana | 1 in 31K | 11K | Ioana | 179 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 8 | Ioana | 33 |
| BG Bulgaria | #162 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 339 | Йоана | 95 |
| MD Moldova | #644 | 4,265 | 1 in 789 | 4.3K | Ioana | 4 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,786as Joana | 1 in 1.7K | 1.8K | — | — |
390,970 people counted by DEPABD — name-day population snapshot, 2023. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSI — newborn names (press release); e-services.md — living population register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ioana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Joan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zizi Lambrinob. 1898ROnot in their usual namefirst wife of King Carol II of Romania (1898–1953)
- Ioana Bulcăb. 1936RORomanian actress
- Angela Simileab. 1946ROnot in their usual nameRomanian singer
- Ioana Olteanub. 1966RORomanian rower
- Ioana Florab. 1975RORomanian actress
- Ioana Dumitriub. 1976RORomanian-American mathematician
- Ioana Mihăilăb. 1980RORomanian politician, Health Minister in 2021
- Alexandra Stanb. 1989ROnot in their usual nameRomanian singer
- Ioana Raluca Olarub. 1989RORomanian tennis player
- Ioana Vrinceanub. 1994RORomanian rower
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2023 | 391K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2023 | 391K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 4.3K | #186 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.8K | #694 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.7K | #1,415 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,942 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 87 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 87 | #45,476 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 68 | #3,577 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 65 | #43,659 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 23 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 8 | #1,169 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ioana?
- A machine transcription gives /ioan̪a/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- What are other forms of the name Ioana?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Oana and Ionela are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Ioana have the most bearers?
- In Romania, the national register counted about 391 thousand people named Ioana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ioana.
- Where is Ioana most common?
- Ioana is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 54 people carrying it.
- Is Ioana a male or female name?
- Ioana is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Romania (DEPABD, 2023), Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- How common is the name Ioana?
- In Romania, the national register counted 390,970 people named Ioana in 2023, about 1 in 54 residents.
- How common is Ioana compared with other names?
- In Romania, Ioana is the 195th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ioana?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ioanaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ioana” — the 195th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.