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Joanna

Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννα, romanized: Iōanna from Hebrew: יוֹחָנָה, romanized: Yôḥānāh, lit. 'God is gracious'. Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice, Jean, and Jeanne.

The earliest recorded occurrence of the name Joanna, in Luke 8:3, refers to the disciple "Joanna the wife of Chuza," who was an associate of Mary Magdalene. Her name as given is Greek in form, although it ultimately originated from the Hebrew masculine name יְהוֹחָנָן Yəhôḥānān or יוֹחָנָן Yôḥānān meaning 'God is gracious'. In Greek this name became Ιωαννης Iōannēs, from which Iōanna was derived by giving it a feminine ending. The name Joanna, like Yehohanan, was associated with Hasmonean families. Saint Joanna was culturally Hellenized, thus bearing the Grecian adaptation of a Jewish name, as was commonly done in her milieu.

At the beginning of the Christian era, the names Iōanna and Iōannēs were already common in Judea. The name Joanna and its equivalents became popular for women "all at once" beginning in the 12th century in Navarre and the south of France. In England, the name did not become current until the 19th century.

The original Latin form Joanna was used in English to translate the equivalents in other languages; for example, Juana la Loca is known in English as Joanna the Mad. The variant form Johanna originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The Greek form lacks a medial -h- because in Greek /h/ could only occur initially.

The Hebrew name יוֹחָנָה Yôḥānāh forms a feminine equivalent in Hebrew for the name Joanna and its variants. The Christian Arabic form of John is يوحنّا Yūḥannā, based on the Judeo-Aramaic form of the name. For Joanna, Arabic translations of the Bible use يونّا Yuwannā based on Syriac ܝܘܚܢ Yoanna, which in turn is based on the Greek form Iōanna.

Sometimes in modern English Joanna is reinterpreted as a compound of the two names Jo and Anna, and therefore given a spelling like JoAnna, Jo-Anna, or Jo Anna. However, the original name Joanna is a single unit, not a compound. The names Hannah, Anna, Anne, Ann are etymologically related to Joanna just the same: they are derived from Hebrew חַנָּה Ḥannāh 'grace' from the same verbal root meaning 'to be gracious'.

In other languages

Women named Joanna

Religion

Saint Joanna, one of the women associated with the ministry of Mary Magdalene. She brought myrrh to Christ's sepulcher and helped discover the empty tomb (Luke 24:10).
Joanna (prioress of Lothen), twelfth century nun
Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), English prophetess

Royals and noblewomen

Joanna of Constantinople (c. 1199–1244), Countess of Flanders
Joanna of Flanders (c. 1295–1374), Duchess of Brittany
Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (1322–1406)
Joanna, Duchess of Durazzo (1344–1387)
Joanna I of Naples (1325–1382)
Joanna of Bourbon (1338–1378)
Joanna II of Naples (1371–1435)
Joanna of Navarre (c. 1368–1437), consort of King Henry IV of England
Saint Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (1452–1490)
Joanna of Castile (1479–1555), queen regnant of Castile, known as Joanna the Mad
Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (1535–1573)
Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1547–1578)
Joanna Nobilis Sombre (c. 1753–1836), Begum Samru of Sardhana
Princess Joanna of Courland (1783-1876)

Other

Joanna Ampil, Filipina musical theater actress and singer
Joanna Angel (born 1980), American porn actress
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), Scottish poet and playwright
Joanna Barnes (1934-2022), American actress
Joanna Bending, British actress
Joanna Bolme (born 1968), American indie rock musician
Joanna Briscoe (born 1963), English novelist
Joanna Brouk (1949–2017), American composer
Joanna Bruzdowicz (1943–2021), Polish composer
Joanna Cameron (1951–2021), American actress
Joanna Cassidy (born 1945), American actress
Joanna Clark (born 1938), American nun, naval officer, and activist
Joanna Cole (disambiguation), several people
Joanna Connor (born 1962), American blues musician
Joanna David (born 1947), British actress
Joanna Denny (died 2006), British historian
Joanna Dennehy (born 1982), British serial killer
Jo-Anna Downey (1967–2016), Canadian comedian
Joanna Dong (born 1981), Singaporean singer-songwriter
Jo Anna Dossett, American politician
Joanna Dunham (1936–2014), British actress
Joanna Eden, British jazz singer
Joanna Forest, British classical crossover singer
Joanna Gaines (born 1978), American reality TV personality
Joanna Garcia (born 1979), American actress
Joanna Glass (born 1936), Canadian playwright
Joanna Gleason (born 1950), Canadian actress
Joanna Going (born 1963), American actress
Joanna (singer) (born 1957), stage name of Brazilian singer Maria de Fátima Gomes Nogueira
Joanna Gosling (born 1971), British journalist
Joanna Haigh (born 1954), British physicist and academic
Joanna Harcourt-Smith (1946–2020), Swiss writer
Joanna Hausmann (born 1989), Venezuelan-American comedian, actress, and writer
Joanna Hayes (born 1976), American gold medalist in the 2004 Olympics
Joanna Hiffernan (1843–1903), artist's model and muse from Ireland
Joanna Hoffman (born 1953), Polish-born American computer executive
Joanna Jędrzejczyk (born 1987), Polish mixed martial artists
Joanna Kerns (born 1953), American actress
Joanna Klepko (born 1983), Polish singer
Joanna Krupa (born 1979), Polish-American model and actress
Joanna Kulig (born 1982), Polish actress
Joanna Levesque (born 1990), American singer
Joanna Lee (1931–2003), American screenwriter, actress, and producer
Joanna Lumley (born 1946), English actress and former model
JoAnna M. Lund (1944–2006), American author and cook
Joanna MacGregor (born 1959), British classical, jazz, and contemporary pianist
Joanna Macy (born 1929), American Buddhist scholar, author, and environmental activist
Joanna de Albuquerquen Maranhão Bezerra de Melo (born 1987), Brazilian Olympic swimmer
Joanna McGrenere, Canadian computer scientist
Joanna Merlin (1931–2023), American actress and casting director
Joanna Moore (1934–1997), American actress
Joanna Murray-Smith (born 1962), Australian author
Joanna Newsom (born 1982), American harpist, singer, and songwriter
Joanna Norris, New Zealand journalist
Joanna Pacitti (born 1984), American singer, known simply as Joanna
Joanna Page (born 1977), Welsh actress
Joanna Pacuła (born 1957), Polish actress
Joanna Parrish (1969–1990), English student murdered in France in 1990
Joanna Pettet (born 1942), British actress
Joanna Phillips-Lane, British actress
Joanna Pousette-Dart (born 1947), American artist
Joanna Roos (1901–1989), American actress and playwright
Joanna Roth (born 1965), Danish-British actress
Joanna Russ (1937–2011), American science fiction author known for her writing on radical feminist themes
Joanna Scanlan (born 1961), English actress and television writer
Joanna Mary Berry Shields (1884–1965), American educator
Joanna Shimkus (born 1943), Canadian actress
Joanna Siedlecka (born 1949), Polish writer and journalist
Joanna Simon (mezzo-soprano) (1936–2022), American opera singer
Joanna Simon (wine), British author and wine journalist
Joanna Smolarek (born 1965), Polish track and field sprinter
Joanna St. Claire, American singer and songwriter
Joanna Stern (born 1984), American technology journalist
Joanna Stone (born 1972), Australian javelin thrower
Joanna Sutton (born 1986), Australian netball player
Joanna Trollope (born 1943), British novelist
Joanna Truffaut (born 1977), French digital transformation advisor and entrepreneur
Joanna Wang (Wáng Ruòlín) (born 1988), Taiwanese singer and songwriter
Joanna Werners (born 1953), Surinamese-born Dutch author
Joanna Wichmann (1905–1985), German-born textile artist and embroiderer
Joanna Woodall (born 1956), British art historian
Joanna Yeates (1985–2010), English landscape architect and victim in a high-profile 2010 murder case
Joanna Zeiger (born 1970), American Olympic and world champion triathlete, and author

Fictional characters

Joanna Beauchamp, the lead character in Melissa de la Cruz's novel Witches of East End and the TV show made from it
Joanna Chambers, a scientist from the Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz
Joanna Dark, the main character in Perfect Dark
Joanna Eberhart, the protagonist of The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Joanna “Joey” Del Marco, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
The title character in the 1973 Brazilian film Joanna Francesa, played by Jeanne Moreau
Joanna Beth "Jo" Harvelle, a hunter on Supernatural
Joanna the Goanna, a pet lizard to antagonist Percival McLeach in Disney's The Rescuers Down Under
The protagonist of the 1968 British film Joanna
Joanna McCoy, daughter of Leonard McCoy of Star Trek
Joanna May, title character in The Cloning of Joanna May, a science fiction novel by Fay Weldon
Jo Parrish, a police constable on Blue Heelers
Jo Polniaczek on The Facts of Life
Lieutenant Joanna Reece on Forever

Women named Ioanna

Ioanna Anagnostopoulou (born 1997), Greek rhythmic gymnast
Ioanna Babassika, Greek human rights lawyer
Ioanna Chatziioannou (born 1973), retired female weightlifter from Greece
Ioanna Filippou (born 1995), Cypriot beauty pageant title holder
Ioanna Fotiadou (born 1977), Greek handball player
Ioanna Karyofylli, Greek local politician
Ioanna Karystiani (born 1952), Greek screenwriter
Ioanna Kimbook, Cypriot actress
Ioanna Kondouli, Greek politician and topographer engineer
İoanna Kuçuradi (born 1936), Turkish philosopher
Ioanna Lytrivi (born 1982), Greek politician
Ioanna Morfessis, American businesswoman
Ioanna Papantoniou (born 1936), Greek author, scenic designer, costume designer and folklorist
Ioanna Sfekas-Karvelas (born 1950), Greek American dramatic soprano
Ioanna Stamatopoulou (born 1998), Greek water polo player
Ioanna Tantcheva (born 1989), Bulgarian group rhythmic gymnast
Ioanna Vlachou (born 1981), Greek volleyball player