Joann is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Joann is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Joann. In the SmartGenius ranking, Joann is #2,296 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 152,441 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Joann. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
#50 - this is the highest position Joann has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Joann reached this top position was in the last century, in 1934, when 4,169 newborn girls were named Joann. But as our statistics show, Joann has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1898, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Joann is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Joann was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 78 newborns were given the name Joann, making them rank #2,109. Although the name Joann was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Joann are still there in our contemporary times.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Joann occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Joann is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Joann is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 152,436 women and girls of all generations bear the name Joann – that is one in 1,011. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in North Dakota, where one in 446 women and girls is called Joann, while it is particularly rare in Nevada, where you have to ask an average of 8,590 women for their name to get Joann as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Joann is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Joann and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Joann, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Apple
Nut
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Joann
Joann
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
A
N
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
O
A
N
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Joann sounds like this:
