Meaning not yet researched.
Johana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #749 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #749 in 2001; #2,287 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Johana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,287 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #749.
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Johana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 girls in 2025. Peak: #749 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 329 (2005).
In 2025, 80 US girls were named Johana, making it the 2,287th most common girls’ name of the year, down 548 places from #1,739 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 117 girls named Johana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #749, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 329, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,915 in 2015 and #5,645 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Johana in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 10 babies. In all, 6,978 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,679 babies named Johana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,064 US girls were named Johana; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 143. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,091 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Johana ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,348 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Joan (488,939 babies since 1880), Joanne (212,474 babies since 1880), Joanna (112,067 babies since 1880) and Johanna (54,376 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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.
No nicknames listed for Johana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,348 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,507 | #1,547 |
| California | 12 | #1,792 | #1,362 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,967 | #1,867 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 2015 | 106 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2011 | 167 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 2010 | 224 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2008 | 231 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 2007 | 296 | #916 | — | — |
| 2006 | 311 | #860 | — | — |
| 2005 | 329 | #790 | — | — |
| 2004 | 235 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 2003 | 297 | #825 | — | — |
| 2002 | 221 | #996 | — | — |
| 2001 | 320 | #749 | — | — |
| 2000 | 206 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1997 | 152 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1995 | 118 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1994 | 131 | #1,297 | 5 | #9,505 |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,511 | 6 | #8,107 |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1991 | 113 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1990 | 164 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1981 | 81 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1980 | 121 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,332 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,035 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,331 | — | — |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,914 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,254 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,605 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,205 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,880 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,228 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,106 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,209 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,044 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,538 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,116 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,711 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,529 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,385 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,501 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,726 | — | — |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,798 | — | — |
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).