Jo-An
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/t͡ʃoan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Jo-An is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 306,627 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”). Jo-An is also written ג'ואן in Hebrew, โจแอน in Thai and 조안 in Korean (Hangul).
- JMJamaica≈1 in 420(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 490
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 590
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 Jo-An itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #102 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 597 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 418 (inferred from the name graph)
306,627 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jo-An in other scripts: Hebrew, Thai, Korean (Hangul) and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Joan in US United States, PH Philippines, IE Ireland and 1 more, Joanne in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, ID Indonesia, Jeanne in FR France and Joann in FI Finland.
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.
How to pronounce Jo-An
- Spanish:/t͡ʃoan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- LatinIohannes(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸωάννηςIōánnēs(measured from records)
- HebrewיוחנןYôḥānān“Yahweh is gracious”(measured from records)
From Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jo-An 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #49 | 306,627 | 1 in 1.1K | 297K | Joan | 597 |
| GB United Kingdom | #28 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 408 | 41 | Joanne | 335 |
| PH Philippines | #67 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 684 | — | Joan | 162 |
| FR France | #102 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 523 | 566K | Jeanne | 361 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Joanne | 80 |
| AU Australia | #37 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | 101 | Joanne | 292 |
| FI Finland | — | 12,498as Joona | 1 in 446 | 13K | Joann | 20 |
| IE Ireland | #48 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 490 | — | Joan | 135 |
| JM Jamaica | #3 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 418 | — | Joan | 27 |
306,627 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jo-An mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Jo-An?
- In Spanish /t͡ʃoan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jo-An a male or female name?
- Jo-An is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Jo-An?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 307 thousand people named Jo-An, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joan. After it come United Kingdom, Philippines, France and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jo-An?
- In the United States, the national register counted 306,627 people named Jo-An in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Jo-An compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jo-An is the 49th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jo-anThe 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, “Jo-An” — ranked 165th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.