Joana Forename
1,061st
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 875,656 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
East Timor
Joana Forename User-submission:
The name Joana originates from the Latin name Iohanna and the Hebrew name Yehokhanan. It means 'graced by God'. All its variants got popularized after Joan of Arc's canonization, being a popular girl name in Portugal in the 1990's and 2000's and the feminine version of the popular boy name João.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 100% | 325,884 | 1:657 | 92 |
| Angola | 100% | 218,097 | 1:124 | 17 |
| Portugal | - | 106,095 | 1:98 | 20 |
| Mozambique | - | 50,879 | 1:535 | 105 |
| Philippines | 99% | 29,717 | 1:3,567 | 641 |
| Ghana | 100% | 29,160 | 1:925 | 208 |
| East Timor | - | 14,890 | 1:82 | 20 |
| Malawi | 100% | 14,595 | 1:1,172 | 246 |
| Spain | 100% | 14,568 | 1:3,194 | 370 |
| Mexico | 100% | 11,214 | 1:11,070 | 910 |
| United States | 100% | 5,690 | 1:63,715 | 3,295 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 5,274 | 1:560 | 152 |
| Cape Verde | - | 4,417 | 1:120 | 9 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 2,928 | 1:7,381 | 991 |
| Albania | 100% | 2,592 | 1:1,175 | 224 |
| South Africa | 99% | 2,544 | 1:21,436 | 2,915 |
| Tanzania | 99% | 2,181 | 1:24,204 | 2,325 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 1,917 | 1:8,046 | 1,144 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 1,914 | 1:15,779 | 1,463 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 1,679 | 1:105,756 | 5,855 |
| Papua New Guinea | 93% | 1,660 | 1:4,911 | 525 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,552 | 1:62,292 | 1,624 |
| Fiji | - | 1,467 | 1:608 | 84 |
| Haiti | 100% | 1,412 | 1:7,597 | 917 |
| Zambia | - | 1,293 | 1:12,262 | 1,259 |
| England | 96% | 1,275 | 1:43,610 | 2,166 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 1,205 | 1:482 | 92 |
| France | 100% | 1,165 | 1:57,056 | 1,630 |
| Colombia | 100% | 964 | 1:49,563 | 2,251 |
| Peru | 100% | 931 | 1:34,148 | 2,116 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 916 | 1:174,084 | 9,484 |
| India | 100% | 913 | 1:1,330,644 | 79,419 |
| Chile | 100% | 903 | 1:19,499 | 1,079 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 851 | 1:303,130 | 26,288 |
| DR Congo | 97% | 767 | 1:96,255 | 5,226 |
| Uganda | 95% | 744 | 1:55,050 | 3,142 |
| Poland | 100% | 707 | 1:53,787 | 1,425 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 657 | 1:292 | 24 |
| Thailand | 100% | 572 | 1:122,493 | 9,607 |
| Vanuatu | - | 557 | 1:470 | 104 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 522 | 1:6,566 | 576 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 502 | 1:33,669 | 2,663 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 491 | 1:62,016 | 4,861 |
| Panama | 100% | 476 | 1:8,207 | 1,175 |
| Liberia | 99% | 460 | 1:9,591 | 905 |
| Israel | 100% | 442 | 1:19,011 | 1,832 |
| Egypt | - | 369 | 1:249,054 | 8,446 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 327 | 1:31,900 | 2,533 |
| Canada | 100% | 311 | 1:106,538 | 5,286 |
| Ecuador | - | 305 | 1:58,121 | 1,891 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 301 | 1:27,287 | 1,644 |
| Argentina | 100% | 298 | 1:143,534 | 2,176 |
| Greece | 100% | 279 | 1:39,192 | 1,500 |
| Andorra | - | 252 | 1:329 | 58 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 234 | 1:2,410 | 350 |
| Belgium | 100% | 177 | 1:64,915 | 2,794 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 160 | 1:100,678 | 2,216 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 146 | 1:49,567 | 1,867 |
| Sweden | 100% | 145 | 1:67,986 | 3,253 |
| Morocco | - | 136 | 1:252,564 | 6,008 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 133 | 1:138,191 | 6,891 |
| Italy | 100% | 129 | 1:473,350 | 5,154 |
| Swaziland | - | 128 | 1:10,158 | 1,360 |
| Senegal | 100% | 127 | 1:114,814 | 3,063 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 115 | 1:92,186 | 2,449 |
| Benin | 100% | 108 | 1:97,924 | 6,110 |
| Congo | 92% | 105 | 1:47,707 | 3,645 |
| Australia | - | 83 | 1:164,550 | 4,630 |
| Bahrain | - | 74 | 1:18,225 | 2,605 |
| Ireland | 100% | 64 | 1:72,555 | 2,060 |
| Namibia | - | 63 | 1:38,162 | 2,659 |
| Jamaica | - | 60 | 1:48,054 | 2,758 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 60 | 1:396,161 | 25,266 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 58 | 1:82,206 | 2,899 |
| Honduras | 100% | 57 | 1:154,692 | 4,093 |
| China | - | 50 | 1:27,321,116 | 60,830 |
| El Salvador | - | 49 | 1:129,424 | 2,393 |
| Suriname | - | 49 | 1:11,282 | 2,027 |
| Austria | 100% | 46 | 1:185,091 | 2,885 |
| Norway | 100% | 46 | 1:111,572 | 3,477 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 44 | 1:136,780 | 4,150 |
| Singapore | 100% | 43 | 1:146,211 | 7,964 |
| Georgia | 92% | 42 | 1:89,011 | 3,412 |
| New Zealand | - | 41 | 1:110,635 | 4,604 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Scotland | 100% | 37 | 1:144,604 | 2,924 |
| Denmark | - | 35 | 1:161,414 | 3,904 |
| French Polynesia | - | 32 | 1:8,684 | 1,174 |
| Bulgaria | - | 31 | 1:225,496 | 5,341 |
| Macau | - | 30 | 1:20,274 | 368 |
| Qatar | 100% | 28 | 1:84,629 | 9,711 |
| Estonia | 100% | 26 | 1:50,592 | 2,900 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 26 | 1:10,391 | 1,033 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 26 | 1:3,564 | 725 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 25 | 1:286,080 | 16,329 |
| Hong Kong | - | 24 | 1:323,030 | 3,752 |
| Saint Lucia | 94% | 23 | 1:7,731 | 1,158 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 22 | 1:95,034 | 4,671 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 22 | 1:2,329 | 351 |
| Wales | 100% | 22 | 1:140,650 | 2,959 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 20 | 1:1,153,797 | 32,566 |
| Kenya | - | 20 | 1:2,315,356 | 20,763 |
| Serbia | 100% | 20 | 1:357,286 | 4,336 |
| Belize | 100% | 17 | 1:20,842 | 2,309 |
| Iceland | - | 17 | 1:21,530 | 1,463 |
| Japan | - | 17 | 1:7,528,592 | 31,633 |
| Finland | 100% | 16 | 1:342,699 | 4,640 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 15 | 1:163,917 | 3,542 |
| Jordan | - | 14 | 1:630,484 | 4,306 |
| Czechia | 98% | 12 | 1:888,014 | 3,257 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 10 | 1:355,030 | 3,308 |
| Russia | 100% | 10 | 1:14,423,370 | 48,053 |
| Libya | - | 9 | 1:691,257 | 1,282 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 9 | 1:6,074 | 908 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 9 | 1:3,423,618 | 14,711 |
| Romania | 100% | 7 | 1:2,864,568 | 25,615 |
| Bermuda | - | 6 | 1:10,804 | 1,174 |
| Dominica | - | 6 | 1:12,578 | 436 |
| Afghanistan | - | 5 | 1:6,524,703 | 31,933 |
| Jersey | 100% | 5 | 1:19,996 | 1,220 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 5 | 1:272,284 | 13,349 |
| Croatia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,054,269 | 9,352 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 4 | 1:12,282 | 1,318 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Guernsey | - | 4 | 1:15,833 | 609 |
| Madagascar | - | 4 | 1:5,907,352 | 4,093 |
| Oman | - | 4 | 1:1,027,167 | 6,577 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 4 | 1:27,895 | 3,010 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Cuba | - | 3 | 1:3,835,517 | 8,849 |
| Guyana | - | 3 | 1:254,421 | 14,062 |
| Latvia | 100% | 3 | 1:671,882 | 3,893 |
| Monaco | 100% | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| South Korea | - | 3 | 1:1,848,140 | 23,578 |
| Turkey | 100% | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 2 | 1:121,711 | 2,524 |
| Bahamas | - | 2 | 1:199,685 | 2,758 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Brunei | - | 2 | 1:209,785 | 2,478 |
| Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Lebanon | - | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Lesotho | 50% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Slovakia | - | 2 | 1:2,655,032 | 6,915 |
| Vietnam | - | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Hungary | 100% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Kiribati | - | 1 | 1:113,394 | 1,211 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Niger | 100% | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
The alternate forms: Joaña (2), Joanã (1), Joãna (1) & Jôana (1) are calculated separately.
Joana (4,095) may also be a surname.
Joana Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
The name Joana originates from the Latin name Iohanna and the Hebrew name Yehokhanan. It means 'graced by God'. All its variants got popularized after Joan of Arc's canonization, being a popular girl name in Portugal in the 1990's and 2000's and the feminine version of the popular boy name João.
- Joana Catarina Caetano GomesThis name means 'God is full of grace', 'bestowed by God' or 'the grace and mercy of God' and 'God forgives'. It comes from the Hebrew Yehokhanan, Iohanan, composed by the union of the elements Yah, which means 'Yahweh', 'Jehovah', 'God', and hannah, which means 'grace'.
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