Joanna

Variation of Johanna
"God is gracious"

Joanna Origin and Meaning

The name Joanna is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "God is gracious".

Joanna derives from the Greek name Ioanna, which in turn came from the Hebrew name Yohannah. It is featured in the New Testament as a woman who accompanied Jesus on his travels and eventually reached saint status. Other names related to Joanna include Joan, Joanne, Johanna, and Jana.

The most usable name in her family, Joanna has been unobtrusively fashionable since the 1980s and continues to be appreciated for its New Testament history and its melodious three-syllable sound, though the simpler Anna ranks much higher. Joanna was most popular in the mid-80s, when she made it into the Top 100.

Audrey Hepburn played a lovely Joanna in the film Two for the Road and Keira Knightley embodied it in Last Night. Both O. Henry and William Faulkner used it for characters.

The rhythmic Joanna is our choice over Johanna and Joanne.

# 339 in the US

Joanna Rank in US Top 1000

# 455 on Nameberry

Joanna Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Joanna Popularity

Famous People Named Joanna

  • Joanna of Castile and Leon
    Queen consort of Philip I of Castile
  • Joanna I
    Queen of Naples
  • Joanna of Austria
    Grand Duchess of Tuscany
  • Joanna of Rosenthal
    Queen consort of Bohemia as wife of George of Poděbrady
  • Joanna Kerns
    American actress
  • Joanna Russ
    American novelist and feminist academic
  • JoAnna Garcia
    Swisher, American actress
  • Joanna Lamond Lumley
    English actress
  • Joanna Virginia Cassidy
    American actress
  • Joanna Caroline Newsom
    American singer,songwriter
  • Joanna Lea (Stevens) Gaines
    American TV personality ("Fixer Upper")
  • Joanna Lohman
    American soccer player
  • Joanna Krupa
    Polish,American model
  • Joanna Noëlle Blagden "JoJo" Levesque
    American singer and actress
  • Joanna Gleason (born Joanne Hall)
    Canadian actress and singer
  • Joanna Louisa Coles
    English magazine editor
  • Joanna Rowsell
    English cyclist
  • Joanna Honorata Brodzik
    Polish actress
  • Joanna Chmielewska (Irena Barbara Kuhn)
    Polish writer and architect
  • Joanna Horodyńska
    Polish model and stylist
  • Joanna Natalia Jabłczyńska
    Polish actress
  • Joanna Jędryka
    Polish actress
  • Joanna (Cleo) Klepko
    Polish singer
  • Joanna Grażyna Kluzik
    Rostkowska, Polish politician and deputy

Joanna in Pop Culture

  • Joanna Chambers
    character in the Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz
  • Joanna Dark
    main character in video game "Perfect Dark"
  • "Joanna Francesa
    " 1957 Brazilian film and its main character
  • "Joanna
    " 1968 British film and its main character
  • Joanna Lannister
    wife of Tywin Lannister in the Game of Thrones series
  • Joanna
    lizard in Disney's "The Rescuers Down Under"
  • Joanna Wallace
    character in film "Two for the Road"
  • Joanna Reed
    character in film "Last Night"
  • Joanna Beauchamp
    character in the Witches of East End series
  • Joanna McCoy
    daughter of Leonard McCoy on TV's "Star Trek"
  • "The Cloning of Joanna May
    " science fiction novel by Fay Weldon
  • Joanna "Jo" Parrish
    police constable on Australian TV series "Blue Heelers"
  • Joanna Marie "Jo" Polniaczek
    character on TV's "The Facts of Life"
  • Joanna Reece
    character on TV's "Forever"
  • Joanna Mills
    character in film "The Return"
  • Joanna Beth Harvelle
    character on TV's "Supernatural"
  • Joanna "Joey" Drayton
    character in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
  • Joanna Wellick (nee Olafson)
    character in "Mr. Robot"
  • Joanna Forsythe (nee Clark)
    character in DC Universe
  • "Joanna
    " song by Canadian band Hawk Nelson
  • Joanna Eberhart
    character in Ira Levin's 'The Stepford Wives' and is portrayed by Katharine Ross in Bryan Forbes' adaption.