Johanna

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Dutch: a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Johannes, equivalent to English Jane

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

Johanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Poland it is the 18th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 50(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 138
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 521

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 Johanna 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)

≈430,000 named Joanna, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
477 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 50 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JohannaLatin(measured from records)
ΙωανναGreek(measured from records)
ИоаннаCyrillic(measured from records)
יוהנהHebrew(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joanna in PL Poland, CN China and Ioanna in BR Brazil, CY Cyprus.

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)

Feminine form of John; once popular, now obsolescent. Hannah was a pet form.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Johanna is read(measured from records)

Johanna is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish33%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Johanna in Spanish.

  • English29%

    Johannan [Johanan]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Dutch16%

    a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Johannes, equivalent to English Jane

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Johanna in German.

  • French7.7%

    Forme anglicisée de Jeanne; origine hébraïque, signifie « Dieu est miséricordieux ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Johanna 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 Johanna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈430,000 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Joanna58
PL Poland#18401,861as Joanna1 in 95402KJoanna240
BR Brazil—238,493as Joana1 in 888270KIoanna22
FI Finland#344111,5051 in 50151KJohanna67
ZA South Africa#29≈110,000 est.≈1 in 521—Johanna76
SE Sweden#14073,9681 in 13874KJohanna109
CY Cyprus#666,885as Ιωαννα1 in 1846.9KIoanna62
IS Iceland—1,7851 in 1962K—2

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). 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)

Johanna is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name75 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Colombia, United States, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Jöhännä, J'Ohanna, Jöhanna, Johännä, Jo-Hanna

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Johänna, Jõhännâ

  • French given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Sweden

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Joh'Anna, Jo-Hanna, Jo'Hanna, Johànnà, Johãnna

  • Swedish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Jo-Hanna, Jóhanna

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jóhanna

  • Polish given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Croatia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Yohana, Johana, Йохана, Iohana, Jóhanna

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Jóhanna

73 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)

Johanna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, Feminine form of John; once popular, now obsolescent. Hannah was a pet form.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • Latinate feminine form of Johannes (see John), a variant of Joanna. 130

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1700180019002000Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, b. 1742Maria Carolina of Austria, b. 1752Marie Antoinette, b. 1755Jenny Lind, b. 1820Johanna Spyri, b. 1827Hannah Arendt, b. 1906Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, b. 1942Mari Kiviniemi, b. 1968Yohanna, b. 1990Johanna Konta, b. 1991

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 111 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Johanna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—151K#3
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—112K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—74K#45
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202034K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022840—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—835#9,328
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—495#14,411
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—385#737
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026385#737
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202061—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—47#5,904
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)202634—

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

Where does the name Johanna come from?
Feminine form of John; once popular, now obsolescent. Hannah was a pet form. Recorded by Irish first names.
In which country does Johanna have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 431 thousand people named Joanna in China, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Johanna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Johanna is densest in Finland — about 1 in 50 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What are other forms of the name Johanna?
In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Hanna, Joey and Hanne are recorded short or pet forms.
What does the name Johanna mean?
In Dutch, a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Johannes, equivalent to English Jane
Is Johanna a male or female name?
Johanna 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.
How common is the name Johanna?
In Finland, the national register counted 111,505 people named Johanna, about 1 in 50 residents.
How common is Johanna compared with other names?
In Poland, Johanna is the 18th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.

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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, “Johanna” — the 18th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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