Joanne is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Joanne is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,876 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,875 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 206,728 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Joanne. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
#45 - this is the highest position Joanne has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Joanne reached this top position was in the last century, in 1935, when 4,583 newborn girls were named Joanne. But as our statistics show, Joanne has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1906, 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 Joanne 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 Joanne was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 81 newborns were given the name Joanne, making them rank #2,044. Although the name Joanne 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 Joanne are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Joanne is one of them. However, Joanne is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Massachusetts seem to particularly fancy this name – the 15,813 women called Joanne who live here are 0,416% of all female residents and push their name up to #54, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Massachusetts.
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 six letters, the name Joanne is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Joanne 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 Joanne, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Apple
Nut
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Joanne
Joanne
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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
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A
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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. Joanne sounds like this:
