Joumana
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Joumana is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lebanon than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic جُمَانَة (jumāna), meaning a perfect pearl.
- LBLebanon≈1 in 1.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 13K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Lebanon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Arabic جُمَانَة (jumāna), meaning a perfect pearl.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Joumana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LB Lebanon | #704 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Joumana | 43 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Joumana | 38 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Joumana | 8 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Joumana | 16 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 58K | listed | Joumana | 22 |
| US United States | — | 404 | 1 in 823K | 399 | Joumana | 122 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Joumana | 4 |
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; the wgnd-eg-names register; the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)- Jumana El Husseinib. 1931FRnot in their usual namePalestinian contemporary artist (1932-2018)
- Joumana Seifb. 1970SYSyrian lawyer, women's rights activist and human rights activist
- Jumana Emil Abboudb. 1971CAnot in their usual namePalestinian contemporary artist (born 1971)
- Jumana Muradb. 1973SYnot in their usual nameSyrian actress
- Jumana Ghunaimatb. 1974JOnot in their usual nameJordanian journalist
- Jumana Mannab. 1987USnot in their usual namePalestinian contemporary artist (born 1987)
- Jumana Abdu Rahmanb. 1996INnot in their usual nameIndian actress and social media personality from Dubai
- Joumana GhosnCAPh.D. Université de Montréal 2003
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 399 | #24,021 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 10 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #24,021 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Joumana mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic جُمَانَة (jumāna), meaning a perfect pearl. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Joumana a male or female name?
- Joumana is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Joumana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Joumana in Lebanon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joumana.
- How common is the name Joumana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 404 people named Joumana in 2020, about 1 in 823 thousand residents.
- How common is Joumana compared with other names?
- In Lebanon, Joumana is the 704th most common given name of 18,838 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joumanaThe 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, “Joumana” — the 704th most common given name in Lebanon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.