Joann

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Joann: Recorded since 1969, it reached #249 in 1974, and it was last ranked in 2018.

2registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#249highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2018

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1998	#3142
2008	#4524
2015	#5730
2017	#5765
2018	#5666

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 23 of the 27 years from 1969 to 1995.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1969–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #393 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1969–1995
Highest recorded position: #249 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1974 (recorded 1969–1995).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #5666 among girls in England and Wales, in 2018.
England and Wales · Girls

Joann appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1969, and has registered 194 births with the name.

Joann across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Joann's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#393 (1969)	#249 (1974)	#516 (1995)	23 of 27	194 (1969–1995)	17 (1982)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#3142 (1998)	#5666 (2018)	6 of 23	20 (1996–2018)	4 (1998)

Joann by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Joann in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970sbusiest	92	9 of 10	10
1980s	83	9 of 10	9
1990s	15	4 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Republic of Ireland has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1969 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #249 in Republic of Ireland in 1974.

Joann'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
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#446	4	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#388	6	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#288	12	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#288	12	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#259	17	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#272	14	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#311	11	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#330	9	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#281	13	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#269	13	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#263	13	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#282	11	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#249	16	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#349	7	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#332	7	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	4	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.

Where Joann is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Joann, between 1969 and 2018, in 29 of those 50 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1969–1995	23	#249 in 1974
England and Wales	1996–2018	6	#3142 in 1998

Its high point came 24 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1974) than in England and Wales (1998).

No registrar recorded it for 9 years after 1998; it appears again in 2008.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1969 and 2018, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #249, first reached in 1974.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1982.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 27 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.

Joana · #896, 30y
Joanie · #638, 25y
Joanna · #29, 67y
Joanne · #4, 74y

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.

Damion · #250, 29y
Huxley · #250, 25y
Naoimh · #248, 27y
Trina · #248, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Angelo · #250, 32y
Damion · #250, 29y
Edele · #248, 15y
Egidijus · #248, 28y

Joann was ranked #249 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1974. 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.

Annie#249
Caoimhe#249
Carole#249
Muriel#249
Alma#255
Bronagh#255
Clair#255
Eilis#255

What is known about Joann

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1969–2018.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 1969 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #249 in Republic of Ireland in 1974. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Joann

Joann at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Joann across 2 official records

Joann by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Popularity data

Where Joann is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Joann

What is known about Joann

Joann at a glance

Joann across 2 official records

Joann by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Joann