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Johana

Feminine · “God is gracious”

Johana is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 6,967 girls against 11 boys since 1880.

1915high 2005
#2276 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare80 girls in 2025

Johana is a feminine of John — God is gracious — the most productive name in European history.

How old is the name Johana?

Johana first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Johana alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 6,800 people named Johana are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Johana most popular?

Johana peaked in 2001, reaching #749 nationally. Today it ranks #2276, 1,527 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Johana

Yochanan gave Greek Ioannes, Latin Iohannes, and then John, Jean, Juan, Ivan, Jane, Joan and Johanna across Europe — no other name has produced so many. Johana is the Spanish and Czech spelling and appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

God is gracious

From the Latin Iohanna, the feminine of Iohannes, from the Hebrew Yochanan, 'the Lord is gracious'. The single-n spelling is Spanish and Czech. The Hebrew is transparent and the chain of descent well documented.

How the name formed

  1. Yochanan
  2. Iohanna
  3. Johana

Related forms: Johana · Johana · Johanna

Pronouncing Johana

yoh-AH-nah

Three syllables, stress in the middle. Spanish gives the j an h sound; English says joh-HAN-uh.

Nicknames for Johana

Moderate

JohaThe front of the name, used inside Spanish-speaking families
HanaThe back of the name, and a name in its own right in several languages
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1915–202532916503298019152025

US babies named Johana per year from 1915 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#7491910s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1915
Most girls named
2005329 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#749reached in 2001
Change vs 2024
−31.6%80 in 2025, from 117
Johana sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2005, with 329 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Johana in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Johana in Spanish — same name
  • Johana in Czech — same name
  • Johanna in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.

Johanas among us

6,800

people named Johana are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 20,091 born in 2025 was named Johana

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Johana

#2276
Johana on the 2025 chart
#580
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Johana went to 80 girls in 2025, but Johanna and Johannah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 413, which makes it the 580th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,696 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 3,892 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 20,091 for Johana itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Suzanna test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Johana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Suzanna climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Suzanna's path sketches the road Johana is walking now.

40%chance Johana will feel dated by 2040
Johana, aligned on its peakSuzanna· peak 1973not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsSuzanna · #3009Johana today
Johana today is about where Suzanna stood in 1997 — 24 years past a #749-sized peak. By 2012, Suzanna had settled around #2685.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Johana sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Johana is headed

19152030

US babies named Johana per year, 1915 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Johana should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady+6% by 2030projected around #2,285 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Johana beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Johana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Johanathis name80#2276Sayla80#2276Haizley80#2276Nyah80#2276Leonie80#2276

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • It belongs to the most productive name family in European history.
  • The God-is-gracious meaning is transparent and undisputed.
  • Hana is available as a short form with real use.
What to consider
  • Johanna with two n's is the commoner spelling.
  • The initial consonant differs between Spanish and English.
  • It reads as specifically Spanish or Central European.

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Frequently asked

How many Johanas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,800 people named Johana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Johana?
Johana is one of 3 recorded spellings. Johanna is the more common one — 309 births in 2025 against 80 for Johana.
How popular is the name Johana in 2025?
Johana ranks #2276 among US girl names in 2025, with 80 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Johana?
About 1 in every 20,091 US girls born in 2025 was named Johana — 80 in all.
Will my child share the name Johana with classmates?
Johana will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Johana

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Sayla#2276 · Haizley#2276 · Nyah#2276 · Leonie#2276 · Lavinia#2276 · Analise#2276 · Ollie#2276 · Jacquelyn#2276

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