Entry № 4961 · English origin

Joanne Joanne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ joh-ANN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"God is gracious (Joanne Woodward; J.K. Rowling's birth name)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "god is gracious (joanne woodward; j.k. rowling's birth name)".

Joanne is the English feminine of John — from the Hebrew Yochanan ("God is gracious"). Married Paul Newman in 1958; their 50-year marriage was among the most enduring in Hollywood history. Cecil B. Joanne "Jo" Rowling (born 1965) — British author; the Harry Potter series has sold over 600 million copies worldwide; chose pseudonym "J.K." because her publisher worried boys wouldn't read books by a woman.

God is gracious. Joanne Woodward's Oscar at 27; J.K. Rowling's first name is Joanne.

The name in its native script.

Joanne
Transliteration
Joanne
Pronunciation
/ dʒoʊˈæn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Joanne stands.

Joanne 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.

Joannes before her.

Real people
Joanne Woodward
American Oscar actress.
born 1930
J.K. (Joanne) Rowling
British author of Harry Potter.
born 1965
In fiction
Joanne
The Three Faces of Eve.
1957

Names connected to Joanne.

The number behind Joanne.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Joanne reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.