Joan

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Primarily a girl's name · Unisex โ€” 76% girls / 24% 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 1942 and has been recorded in 64 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1960 with 34 babies (rank #372 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

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.

1,561
Total babies (all years)
64
Years in the data
34
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
19426#3
195220#366
195311#562
195415#500
195520#450
195613#559
195726#398
195823#430
195933#375
196034#372
196122#481
196222#485
196319#531
196427#444
196529#431
196629#436
196724#487
196827#459
196923#505
197025#490
197122#509
197221#509
197319#499
197421#473
197518#502
197628#375
197711#647
197821#449
197921#454
198017#528
198122#458
198220#473
198325#426
198423#456
198521#508
198614#634
198713#673
198822#499
198912#717
199021#542
199118#614
199215#647
19939#855
199410#805
199517#593
199611#754
199720#545
199815#646
199917#589
200014#676
200120#544
200217#597
200313#674
20046#986
200514#613
200617#538
200713#625
200815#587
200915#563
20107#825
201124#395
201217#466
201317#469
20149#646