Joana

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Joana: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Joana: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #896 in 2018, and it stood at #1,894 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#896highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#1666
1998	#1823
1999	#1970
2000	#1475
2001	#1439
2002	#1784
2003	#1472
2004	#2112
2005	#2084
2006	#1660
2007	#1160
2008	#1447
2009	#2759
2010	#2104
2011	#1903
2012	#2095
2013	#2460
2014	#2314
2015	#3615
2016	#2120
2017	#2706
2018	#2187
2019	#1782
2020	#2449
2021	#2711
2022	#3533
2023	#4709
2024	#1894

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2018: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2187 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Joana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Joana in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	30	4 of 10	8
2000sbusiest	133	10 of 10	13
2010s	116	10 of 10	12
2020s	44	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Joana appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #896 in Republic of Ireland in 2018.

Joana's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1782	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2460	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2095	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1160	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2112	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1439	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #896, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 24 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 22 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Joan · #31, 73y
Joanie · #638, 24y
Joann · #249, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Deryn · #896, 26y
Peaches · #896, 27y
Roya · #896, 26y
Shifa · #896, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aphra · #896, 21y
Caia · #896, 19y
Deryn · #896, 26y
Elisse · #896, 21y

Joana was ranked #896 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2018. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Joana and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Joana without appearing here.

Joana moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #5891.
Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Joana

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #1286.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1782 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #1313.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2460 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2314 and #1628.
Noah Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #2201.

Moved the opposite way to Joana

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joana went from #3795 to #1894 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joana went from #3795 to #1894 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joana went from #3795 to #1894 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joana went from #3795 to #1894 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Joana

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joana went from #3795 to #1894 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joana went from #3795 to #1894 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joana went from #3795 to #1894 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joana went from #3795 to #1894 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #896 in Republic of Ireland in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Joana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Joana at a glance

Joana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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