Name: Joan
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Joan, of hebrew origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Joan are in general originating from Denmark, France, Ireland, Malta, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Joan across the world, see Johanne.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Joan is: God is gracious.
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Numerology of the first name Joan: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Joan is ranked on the 310th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 2003600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.028% of the population. The name Joan has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Joan for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Joan is mainly a female name in the English language, but can be a male name in Catalan, Spanish, Dutch and in French. It is related to the names John, Jane, Jean, Jeanne, Johan, Joanna, Juan, João, Ivan, Jovan, Ioan, Jan, Jann, Yanne, Jouan, Sean, Ioan, Siobhán, and Siwan.
The English female name is an English form of the Old French name Johanne, a female variant of the male name Johannes. The name ultimately derives from the Biblical Hebrew name יוחנן Yôḥānān, short for יהוחנן Yəhôḥānān, meaning "Yahweh is merciful". Some commonly known uses include:
1 (f.) English: contracted form of Old French Jo(h)anne, from Latin Jo(h)anna (see Joanna). In England this was the usual feminine form of John from the Middle English period onwards, but in the 16th and 17th centuries it was largely superseded by Jane. It was strongly revived in the first part of the 20th century, partly under the influence of George Bernard Shaw's play St Joan (1923), based on the life of Joan of Arc (1412–31). In French, her name is Jeanne D'Arc; Schiller knew her as Johanna. She is also sometimes called ‘the maid of Orléans’. Claiming to be guided by the voices of the saints, she persuaded the French dauphin to defy the occupying English forces and have himself crowned, and she led the French army that raised the siege of Orléans in 1429. The following year she was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English, and a year later she was burned at the stake for witchcraft at the age of 18 or 19. Her story has captured the imagination of many writers, and she is variously portrayed as a national and political hero, a model of apolitical straightforwardness and honesty, and a religious heroine. She was canonized in 1920.
2 (m.) Catalan form of John.
Cognate (of 1): Scottish Gaelic: Seonag.
Pet forms (of 1): English: Joanie, Joni.
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