Joan is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning “Yahweh is gracious.” In 2024 it was given to 188 girls in the United States.
Joan belongs to the Spanish and English & American tradition. Its meaning — “Yahweh is gracious” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Joan first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #5 in 1931, and in 2024 188 babies received the name — 481,016 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Joan means “Yahweh is gracious” in its Spanish roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Joan is a girl name. In 2024, 188 babies received the name in the US.
Joan comes from the Spanish and English & American tradition.
Joan first appears in US records in 1880. Its best-ever ranking was #5 in 1931, and 188 babies were given the name in 2024.
Joan is pronounced /d͡ʒoʊn/ (IPA).
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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