Name profile

Johanna

Latinate form of Greek Ioanna.

PronunciationGerman /ˌjo.ˈha.na/; Swedish /jʊ.ˈhan.na/; Dutch /joː.ˈɦɑ.naː/; Hungarian /ˈjo.ɦɒn.nɒ/; Finnish /ˈjo.ɦɑn.nɑ/; English /d͡ʒoʊ.ˈhæn.ə/; English /d͡ʒoʊ.ˈæn.ə/
Usage languagesDanish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Late Roman, Latvian, Norwegian, Swedish
US rank (2025)#869

Meaning and history

Latinate form of the Greek name Ioanna, see Joanna.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 857 births, rank #377
2007: 786 births, rank #416
2008: 703 births, rank #449
2009: 652 births, rank #476
2010: 697 births, rank #440
20112011: 563 births, rank #518
2012: 640 births, rank #478
2013: 561 births, rank #532
2014: 571 births, rank #542
2015: 578 births, rank #541
20162016: 562 births, rank #554
2017: 563 births, rank #549
2018: 590 births, rank #533
2019: 511 births, rank #593
2020: 449 births, rank #644
20212021: 409 births, rank #704
2022: 358 births, rank #789
2023: 376 births, rank #749
2024: 319 births, rank #848
20252025: 309 births, rank #869

Johanna moved from #848 to #871 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1984, with 919 births.