Joan

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: English

Meaning

Joan is both a feminine form of the personal name John given to girls in the Anglosphere as well as the native masculine form of John in the Catalan-Valencian and Occitan languages.

From Wikipedia

Joan first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 6 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1952 with 125 babies (rank #67 that year). It was not in the 2025 data.

Numerology of Joan

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Joan yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

492
Total babies (all years)
6
Years in the data
125
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952125#67
1953110#76
195484#87
195593#84
195679#89
20141#1,758