Joann
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌdʒoʊˈæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 3rd most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 24K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 412as Joan
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 457as Joanne
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 Joann 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #102 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 597 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 named Joan, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Joan in US United States, PH Philippines, IE Ireland and 3 more and Joanne in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, ID Indonesia.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joann 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 721 | — | Joan | 70 |
| US United States | #49 | 306,627as Joan | 1 in 1.1K | 297K | Joan | 597 |
| PH Philippines | #67 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 604 | — | Joan | 162 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Joanne | 80 |
| GB United Kingdom | #28 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 457 | 41 | Joanne | 335 |
| AU Australia | #37 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 547 | 101 | Joanne | 292 |
| FI Finland | — | 12,498as Joona | 1 in 446 | 13K | Joann | 20 |
| IE Ireland | #48 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 521 | — | Joan | 135 |
| JM Jamaica | #3 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 412 | — | Joan | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | #384 | 706 | 1 in 24K | 3.1K | Joan | 103 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean Astrucb. 1684FRnot in their usual nameFrench physician (1684-1766)
- Joan Mirób. 1893ESSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983)
- Joan Blondellb. 1906USAmerican actress (1906–1979)
- Margaret Gellerb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronomer
- Joan Armatradingb. 1950GBBritish singer and musician
- Chynab. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and actress (1969-2016)
- Christine Taylorb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1971)
- Joann Sfarb. 1971FRFrench comics artist, graphic novelist, and film director
- Melissa Joan Hartb. 1976USAmerican actress
- Joan Gonzálezb. 2002ESSpanish footballer
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)
Attested in 54 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 Joann?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌdʒoʊˈæn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Joann a male or female name?
- Joann 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.
- What are other forms of the name Joann?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Joan are forms of the same name in other languages; Joni, Jolene and Joanie are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Joann?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 706 people named Joann, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Joann compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Joann is the 3rd most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Joann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Joan in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Joann most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joann is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Joann?
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/joannThe 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, “Joann” — the 3rd most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.