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Joan

Joan is a distinctive choice, ranked #1743 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Joan in their class.

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UK Rank 2024
#1743
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About the Name Joan

Joan is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 420 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #1287 in 1997 β€” and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.

Joan is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school β€” standing out on every register.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the name Joan

Unlikely. With around 17 UK babies named Joan per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Joan in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Joan is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 420 places over the last five years to #1743 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Joan is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Joan include: Joan Garcia β€” Joan Garcia Pons is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team.; Joan Van Ark β€” Joan Martha Van Ark is an American actress.; Joan Collins β€” Dame Joan Henrietta Collins is an English actress, author and columnist..
Joan does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice β€” your child is unlikely to encounter American Joans in the wild.
17
UK babies named Joan (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 420 places
Rank change (last 5 years)

🏫 Who else is in the room?

In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Joan

Likely around 1 other Joan in the class

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UK Popularity (1996–2024)

Rank and birth count · ONS official data

No US data available for this name

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About the Name Joan

Meaning
The Lord is gracious

Famous People Named Joan

Notable people who share this name, from history to the present day. See full list on Wikipedia

Joan Bennett Kennedyb. 1992
Virginia Joan Bennett Kennedy was an American socialite, author, and advocate. Kennedy was the first wife of U.S.
Joan Garciab. 2001
Joan Garcia Pons is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. An Espanyol youth graduate, Garcia broke into the first team in 2021 and eventually established himself as a first-choice in 2024.
Joan Van Arkb. 1966
Joan Martha Van Ark is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing.
Joan Collins1933
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins is an English actress, author and columnist. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Joan of KentHistorical
Joan, Countess of Kent suo jure, also known as the "Fair Maid of Kent", was mother of King Richard II of England, her son by her third husband, Edward the Black Prince, the eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III. The French chronicler Jean Froissart described her as 'in her time the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loved', and, Chandos Herald wrote that she was 'beautiful, pleasant and wise'.
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [Κ’an daʁk] ; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [Κ’Ι™ΛˆΓ£nΙ™ ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of OrlΓ©ans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
Joan Bocher
Joan Bocher was an English Anabaptist burned at the stake for heresy during the English Reformation in the reign of Edward VI. She has also been known as Joan Boucher or Butcher, or as Joan Knell or Joan of Kent.
Joan Bulmer
Joan Bulmer, born Joan Acworth, was an English gentlewoman and courtier.
Joan Plowright
Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, commonly known as Dame Joan Plowright, was an English actress whose career spanned over six decades. She received several accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Joan Braderman
Joan Braderman is an American video artist, director, performer, and writer. Braderman's video works are considered to have created her signature style known as "stand up theory." Via this "performative embodiment," she deconstructs and analyzes popular media by inserting chroma-keyed cut-outs of her own body into appropriated mass media images, where she interrogates the representation of ideology (such as money, race and gender) and the transparency of photographic space in U.S.

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