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Joann: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #50 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #50 in 1934; #3,049 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joann in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,049 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #50.
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Joann: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 girls in 2025. Peak: #50 in 1934 · most girls in one year: 4,506 (1942).
In 2025, 54 US girls were named Joann, making it the 3,049th most common girls’ name of the year, up 14 places from #3,063 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 53 girls named Joann in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #50, reached in 1934. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,506, in 1942. For comparison, it was #2,179 in 2015 and #98 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joann in 130 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 6 babies. In all, 157,456 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 40,142 babies named Joann.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 639 US girls were named Joann; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,764 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Joanne (212,474 babies since 1880), John (5,204,377 babies since 1880), Joan (488,939 babies since 1880) and Juan (368,366 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Jo.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,049 | — | — |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,122 | 5 | #13,109 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,671 | 5 | #12,982 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,736 | 6 | #11,405 |
| 2018 | 75 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 2015 | 87 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,029 | 6 | #11,465 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,257 | 6 | #11,761 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,056 | 6 | #11,286 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,936 | 5 | #12,285 |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,673 | 9 | #7,843 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,546 | 8 | #8,204 |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,590 | 5 | #11,525 |
| 2001 | 132 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 2000 | 140 | #1,349 | 6 | #9,648 |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1998 | 164 | #1,151 | 7 | #7,982 |
| 1997 | 172 | #1,095 | 7 | #7,659 |
| 1996 | 170 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1995 | 184 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1994 | 197 | #944 | — | — |
| 1993 | 219 | #885 | — | — |
| 1992 | 228 | #868 | — | — |
| 1991 | 279 | #746 | — | — |
| 1990 | 312 | #684 | — | — |
| 1989 | 310 | #660 | — | — |
| 1988 | 331 | #604 | — | — |
| 1987 | 355 | #564 | — | — |
| 1986 | 369 | #552 | — | — |
| 1985 | 399 | #509 | — | — |
| 1984 | 451 | #464 | 8 | #4,756 |
| 1983 | 448 | #457 | 5 | #6,744 |
| 1982 | 509 | #430 | 6 | #5,985 |
| 1981 | 506 | #426 | — | — |
| 1980 | 599 | #385 | — | — |
| 1979 | 635 | #357 | — | — |
| 1978 | 586 | #364 | 5 | #6,261 |
| 1977 | 726 | #324 | — | — |
| 1976 | 801 | #287 | — | — |
| 1975 | 938 | #258 | 7 | #4,550 |
| 1974 | 1,058 | #242 | — | — |
| 1973 | 1,040 | #244 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,101 | #247 | 6 | #4,704 |
| 1971 | 1,380 | #220 | 8 | #3,796 |
| 1970 | 1,559 | #205 | 11 | #2,977 |
| 1969 | 1,634 | #196 | 8 | #3,438 |
| 1968 | 1,676 | #190 | 15 | #2,148 |
| 1967 | 1,794 | #178 | — | — |
| 1966 | 2,117 | #164 | 11 | #2,541 |
| 1965 | 2,395 | #158 | 11 | #2,543 |
| 1964 | 2,736 | #148 | 5 | #4,321 |
| 1963 | 2,652 | #151 | 13 | #2,363 |
| 1962 | 3,112 | #137 | 6 | #3,832 |
| 1961 | 3,350 | #137 | 10 | #2,796 |
| 1960 | 3,409 | #131 | 15 | #2,168 |
| 1959 | 3,459 | #130 | 7 | #3,425 |
| 1958 | 3,700 | #122 | 9 | #2,923 |
| 1957 | 3,057 | #137 | 6 | #3,762 |
| 1956 | 3,003 | #139 | 8 | #3,081 |
| 1955 | 2,936 | #136 | — | — |
| 1954 | 3,063 | #129 | 7 | #3,296 |
| 1953 | 3,171 | #121 | 5 | #4,076 |
| 1952 | 3,266 | #116 | 5 | #3,994 |
| 1951 | 3,422 | #104 | 6 | #3,546 |
| 1950 | 3,600 | #98 | 8 | #2,898 |
| 1949 | 3,523 | #101 | 7 | #3,148 |
| 1948 | 3,799 | #94 | 9 | #2,696 |
| 1947 | 4,276 | #89 | 7 | #3,226 |
| 1946 | 3,945 | #90 | 14 | #1,990 |
| 1945 | 3,465 | #80 | 12 | #2,060 |
| 1944 | 3,973 | #65 | 18 | #1,658 |
| 1943 | 4,464 | #60 | 12 | #2,227 |
| 1942 | 4,506 | #58 | 12 | #2,204 |
| 1941 | 4,275 | #58 | 15 | #1,855 |
| 1940 | 3,789 | #63 | 21 | #1,499 |
| 1939 | 3,994 | #57 | 17 | #1,677 |
| 1938 | 3,710 | #68 | 13 | #2,036 |
| 1937 | 3,936 | #58 | 15 | #1,873 |
| 1936 | 3,886 | #55 | 12 | #2,124 |
| 1935 | 3,913 | #53 | 14 | #1,984 |
| 1934 | 4,149 | #50 | 21 | #1,534 |
| 1933 | 3,209 | #72 | 11 | #2,290 |
| 1932 | 3,115 | #79 | 14 | #2,050 |
| 1931 | 2,655 | #90 | 11 | #2,393 |
| 1930 | 2,131 | #118 | 6 | #3,801 |
| 1929 | 1,550 | #144 | 6 | #3,757 |
| 1928 | 1,001 | #201 | — | — |
| 1927 | 784 | #226 | — | — |
| 1926 | 622 | #267 | 5 | #4,517 |
| 1925 | 470 | #305 | — | — |
| 1924 | 386 | #343 | — | — |
| 1923 | 257 | #417 | — | — |
| 1922 | 206 | #479 | — | — |
| 1921 | 153 | #586 | — | — |
| 1920 | 143 | #600 | — | — |
| 1919 | 93 | #726 | — | — |
| 1918 | 113 | #675 | — | — |
| 1917 | 90 | #740 | — | — |
| 1916 | 72 | #807 | — | — |
| 1915 | 65 | #815 | — | — |
| 1914 | 58 | #762 | — | — |
| 1913 | 31 | #971 | — | — |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1911 | 28 | #819 | — | — |
| 1910 | 20 | #986 | — | — |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,269 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).