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Joane

Joane is a girl's name that peaked in 1935, when it was the 1,219th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2006. About 740 Joanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Joane

By the numbers

Total US births
1,195
Estimated living today
740
Median age today
66
Peak year
1935
Best rank
1,219th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1921

How old the living Joanes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,195 babies given the name since 1921, about 740 are alive — 62 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Joanes

People named Joane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Joane is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Joane is most concentrated in New York (4.9×), California (4.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1935

The most popular girls’ names the year Joane peaked:

All the names of 1935

Joane elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Joane 810 1,299th
France boys Joane 50 4,519th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Where Joane lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 457 women called Joane were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Bizkaia Joane 227 0.377 340
Gipuzkoa Joane 133 0.355 355
Araba/Álava Joane 26 0.150 649
Navarra Joane 40 0.116 730

Listed in 4 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 48 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Joane against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.