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The first name 
Joyanna

Joyanna is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Joyanna meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Joyanna is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Joyanna. In the SmartGenius ranking, Joyanna is #4,340 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Joyanna.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Joyanna

Joyanna has 7 letters 
and begins with a J

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 seven letters, the name Joyanna has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.

Other names with 
J, o, y, a, n, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Joyanna – J, o, y, a, n, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Jayonna or Annajoy.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Joyanna

If your name is Joyanna 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...

This is how you spell the name Joyanna

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Joyanna, you can simply say:

Joker

Orange

Yoyo

Apple

Nut

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Joyanna is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Joyanna in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Joyanna

Joyanna

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Joyanna

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Joyanna is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
O
Y
A
N
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Joyanna

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
Y
A
N
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Joyanna sounds like this: