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How popular is “Joanne” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joanne” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Joanne” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Joanne” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Joanne” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Joanne” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Joanne” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joanne” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 100%
1907 19 0.000040826 19 100%
1908 19 0.000038883 19 100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 100%
1910 28 0.000047401 28 100%
1911 24 0.000037251 24 100%
1912 35 0.000035423 35 100%
1913 52 0.00004573 52 100%
1914 55 0.000038832 55 100%
1915 84 0.000045841 84 100%
1916 118 0.000061 118 100%
1917 114 0.000056808 114 100%
1918 171 0.000078762 171 100%
1919 144 0.000068239 144 100%
1920 208 0.000091928 208 100%
1921 233 0.000099807 233 100%
1922 248 0.000108337 248 100%
1923 342 0.000148535 342 100%
1924 475 0.000199445 475 100%
1925 636 0.000272575 636 100%
1926 944 0.000411167 944 100%
1927 1159 0.000499707 1159 100%
1928 1657 0.000732882 1649 8 99%
1929 2497 0.001139059 2497 100%
1930 3164 0.001423117 3154 10 99%
1931 3768 0.001790544 3757 11 99%
1932 3742 0.001772375 3730 12 99%
1933 3734 0.001867516 3719 15 99%
1934 4562 0.002196632 4543 19 99%
1935 4583 0.002192928 4565 18 99%
1936 4322 0.002080307 4305 17 99%
1937 4354 0.002043489 4332 22 99%
1938 4262 0.001926263 4250 12 99%
1939 4244 0.001926078 4225 19 99%
1940 4435 0.001926012 4418 17 99%
1941 4673 0.001917974 4665 8 100%
1942 5363 0.001963162 5342 21 99%
1943 5280 0.001870643 5269 11 100%
1944 4541 0.001688055 4530 11 100%
1945 4633 0.001746384 4617 16 99%
1946 5510 0.001724404 5505 5 100%
1947 6074 0.001686135 6063 11 100%
1948 5511 0.001596226 5499 12 100%
1949 5755 0.001651469 5746 9 100%
1950 5497 0.001569066 5491 6 100%
1951 5358 0.0014545 5358 100%
1952 5359 0.001411004 5351 8 100%
1953 5895 0.001529721 5890 5 100%
1954 5435 0.001365335 5435 100%
1955 5000 0.001245305 4988 12 100%
1956 4678 0.0011346 4671 7 100%
1957 5124 0.001219378 5111 13 99%
1958 5938 0.001436415 5928 10 100%
1959 5357 0.001288362 5347 10 100%
1960 4884 0.001175787 4875 9 100%
1961 4616 0.001114356 4616 100%
1962 4023 0.000996934 4011 12 99%
1963 3863 0.000975949 3857 6 100%
1964 3581 0.000921133 3574 7 100%
1965 3160 0.000871616 3149 11 99%
1966 2736 0.00078719 2727 9 99%
1967 2349 0.000691921 2340 9 99%
1968 2143 0.000634321 2132 11 99%
1969 2092 0.000601958 2083 9 99%
1970 1964 0.00054457 1954 10 99%
1971 1654 0.000481885 1654 100%
1972 1353 0.000430481 1347 6 99%
1973 1299 0.000430576 1299 100%
1974 1261 0.000414803 1254 7 99%
1975 1143 0.000378553 1137 6 99%
1976 945 0.000311439 945 100%
1977 922 0.000290257 917 5 99%
1978 732 0.000230633 732 100%
1979 757 0.000227532 757 100%
1980 702 0.000203803 702 100%
1981 678 0.000195989 678 100%
1982 632 0.000180162 632 100%
1983 564 0.000162849 564 100%
1984 519 0.000148764 511 8 97%
1985 532 0.000149057 525 7 97%
1986 466 0.000131006 459 7 97%
1987 466 0.000129243 466 100%
1988 431 0.000116643 431 100%
1989 461 0.000119913 461 100%
1990 423 0.000107021 418 5 98%
1991 398 0.000102175 398 100%
1992 328 0.000085388 328 100%
1993 338 0.000089649 338 100%
1994 286 0.00007693 286 100%
1995 274 0.000074819 274 100%
1996 269 0.000073755 264 5 96%
1997 248 0.0000684 248 100%
1998 236 0.000064162 236 100%
1999 211 0.000057122 211 100%
2000 226 0.00005979 226 100%
2001 188 0.000050222 188 100%
2002 174 0.000046545 174 100%
2003 177 0.000046551 177 100%
2004 184 0.000048156 184 100%
2005 148 0.000038493 148 100%
2006 141 0.00003564 141 100%
2007 148 0.000037021 148 100%
2008 129 0.000032819 129 100%
2009 110 0.000028794 110 100%
2010 103 0.00002787 103 100%
2011 93 0.000025425 93 100%
2012 102 0.000027889 102 100%
2013 95 0.000026058 95 100%
2014 114 0.000030758 114 100%
2015 98 0.00002648 98 100%
2016 95 0.000025895 95 100%
2017 109 0.000030479 109 100%
2018 90 0.000025598 90 100%
2019 99 0.000028523 99 100%
2020 72 0.000021553 72 100%
2021 70 0.000020661 70 100%
2022 81 0.000023942 81 100%
2023 70 0.00002114 70 100%
2024 68 0.00002043 68 100%

Explore other names

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