Johana

Where Johana comes from

Johana hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #2,688 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Johana Bahamón born
    Colombian actress
  3. 1985
    Johana Moreno born
    Colombian hammer thrower
  4. 2001
    Peak, #749
    320 babies named Johana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,744.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Johana Moreno · Colombian hammer thrower, born 1985
  • Johana Bahamón · Colombian actress, born 1982
  • Johana Riva · Uruguayn model, born 1990
  • Johana Fuenmayor · Venezuelan fencer, born 1979
  • Johana Gustawsson · French novelist, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.