Joan

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

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 1924 and has been recorded in 11 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1940 with 510 babies (rank #50 that year). It was not in the 2024 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 — a playful read on the name's character.

5,476
Total babies (all years)
11
Years in the data
510
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1924384#41
1940510#50
1941510#50
1942509#50
1943509#50
1944509#50
1945509#50
1946509#50
1947509#50
1948509#50
1949509#50