Entry № 4950 · Hebrew origin

Joanna Joanna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ joh-AN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"God is gracious (NT disciple)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew/Greek)

A name that means "god is gracious (nt disciple)".

Joanna is the feminine of John — from the Hebrew Yochanan, meaning "God is gracious." In Luke 8:3, Joanna was the wife of Chuza (Herod's steward) and one of the women who supported Jesus from her own means.

Joanna Newsom (born 1982) is the American harpist-singer; Joanna Lumley (born 1946) is the English actress (Absolutely Fabulous); Joanna Gaines (born 1978) is the American designer.

God is gracious. NT disciple of Luke 8.

The name in its native script.

Ἰωάννα
Transliteration
Iōánna
Pronunciation
/ dʒoʊˈæn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Joanna stands.

Joanna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Joannas before her.

Real people
Joanna Newsom
American harpist-singer.
born 1982
Joanna Lumley
English actress.
born 1946
Joanna Gaines
American designer.
born 1978
In fiction
Joanna
NT disciple in Luke 8.
New Testament

Names connected to Joanna.

The number behind Joanna.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Joanna reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.