Joana

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Joana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 15th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ) Joanna: weibl. Vom., Neben­ form von.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 136(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 888
  • AOAngola≈1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

238,493 people, 2022

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
312 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 136 (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JoanaLatin(measured from records)
조아나Hangul(measured from records)
ჯოანაGeorgian(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

) Joanna: weibl. Vom., Neben­ form von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Joana 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.

Where Joana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#145238,4931 in 888270KJoana181
PT Portugal#15≈76,000 est.≈1 in 136491Joana201
PH Philippines#405≈36,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Joana99
AO Angola#41≈21,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Joana40
ES Spain#21512,8711 in 3.9K13KJoana146
AL Albania—1,7861 in 1.7K1.8K—2

238,493 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Joana is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, United States

    Also written Jo-Ana

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jo-Ana

  • Albanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy

    Also written Joànà, Jõanã

  • Bulgarian given name60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Romania, Germany

    Languages: Bulgarian, English, German

    Also written Ioana, Йоана, Yoana, Иоана, 'Joana

  • English given name71 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Sweden, Finland

    Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish

    Also written Jonna, Joanna, Joenna, เปียโน, Piano

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Joana 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

12001400160018002000Juana Manuel, b. 1339Queen Maria Isabel of Spain, b. 1797Maria II of Portugal, b. 1819Princess Francisca of Brazil, b. 1824Infanta Maria José, Duchess in Bavaria, b. 1857Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, b. 1861Joana Vicente, b. 1963Joana Hadjithomas, b. 1969Joana Mallwitz, b. 1986Joana Ribeiro, b. 1992

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 92 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Joana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—270K#186
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022238K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—237K#130
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—13K#465
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—13K#244
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20206.8K—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.8K#244
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#130
PT PortugalIRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023)2018491#19
PT PortugalIRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos———

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

What does the name Joana mean, and where does it come from?
) Joanna: weibl. Vom., Neben­ form von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
What are other forms of the name Joana?
In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Joaninha is a recorded short or pet form.
How common is the name Joana?
In Brazil, the national register counted 238,493 people named Joana in 2022, about 1 in 888 residents.
How common is Joana compared with other names?
In Brazil, Joana is the 145th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
Is Joana a male or female name?
Joana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Joana have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 238 thousand people named Joana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joana.

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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, “Joana” — the 145th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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