Joan

Joan is mainly a female name in the English and French languages, but is a male name in Catalan, Occitan, and Dutch. It is related to the names John, Jane, Jean, Jeanne, Johan, Joanna, Juan, João, Ivana, Jovan, Jovana, Ioan, Ioana, Jan, Jann, Yanne, Jouan, Ioan, and Siobhán.
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".

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Fem. proper name, Middle English Joan, Jone, variants of Jean, Jane, from Medieval Latin Joanna, fem. of Late Latin Joannes (see John). Often 17c.-18c. used as a generic name for a female rustic, or with Darby as the characteristic names of an old, happily married couple (1735). Among U.S. births, a top 10 name for girls born between 1930 and 1937.

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Medieval English contracted form of Old French Johanne, means: God is gracious.

Jason, Orjan, Joanne, Siobhan, Joanna, Jovan, Yannick, Ian, Juan, Joana, Jan, Joseph, Yahya, Jane, John, Ioan, Giovanni, Joran, Jonah, Evan, Johanna, Johanne, Jeanne, Jodie, Juana, Jonas, Jean, Johan, Joey

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Joan of Arc	1412	Folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
2	Joan Cusack	1962	American actress
3	Joan Jett	1958	American rock musician, former member of The Runaways
4	Joan Baez	1941	American singer
5	Joan Rivers	1933	American comedian, actress, and television host
6	Joan Fontaine	1917	Actress
7	Joan Allen	1956	Actress
8	Joan Sebastian Valdés López	1951	Mexican singer-songwriter and actor
9	Joan Clarke	1917	English cryptanalyst
10	Joan Kroc	1928	American philanthropist
11	Joan Blondell	1906	American actress
12	Joan Miró	1893	Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
13	Joan Chen	1961	Actress, film director, screenwriter, American producer
14	Joan Bennett Kennedy	1936	Former model, author, pianist
15	Joan Didion	1934	American writer
16	Joan Plowright	1929	British actress
17	Joan Lunden	1950	Television journalist
18	Lin Feng-jiao	1953	Taiwanese actress
19	Joan Sims	1930	English actress
20	Joan Bennett	1910	American actress
21	Joan Severance	1958	Film and television actress, model
22	Joan Hackett	1934	American actress
23	Joan Van Ark	1943	American actress
24	Joan Holloway
25	Joan Osborne	1962	US singer and songwriter
26	Joan Armatrading	1950	British singer-songwriter
27	Joan Smalls	1988	Supermodel
28	Joan Leslie	1925	American actress
29	Joan Hickson	1906	British actress
30	Joan Cornellà	1981	Spanish cartoonist
31	Joan Sutherland	1926	Australian soprano
32	Joan Aiken	1924	English fiction writer
33	Joan Bakewell	1933	English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer
34	Joan Vollmer	1923	Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
35	Joan Capdevila	1978	Spanish footballer
36	Joan Enric Vives Sicília	1949	Archbishop of Urgell and Co-Prince of Andorra
37	Joan Ferguson		Character in the Australian television series Wentworth
38	Joan Trumpauer Mulholland	1941	American activist
39	Joan Greenwood	1921	English actress
40	Joan of Kent	1328	English noblewoman
41	Joan Ganz Cooney	1929	American television producer
42	Joan Taylor	1929	American actress
43	Michelle Joan	1993
44	Joan Gamper	1877	Swiss football pioneer, player and club president
45	Joan Blackman	1938	American actress
46	Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland	1379	English countess
47	Joan Howard Maurer	1927	American writer
48	Joan O'Brien	1936	American actress and singer
49	Joan Staley	1940	American model and actress
50	Joan Mondale	1930	Second Lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981
51	Joan Littlewood	1914	British theatre director and actress
52	Joan Benoit Samuelson	1957	American distance runner
53	Joan Burton	1949	Irish politician
54	Joan of France, Duchess of Berry	1464	French duchess who entered religious life, became a nun and later an abbess who founded the Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary (canonized 1950)
55	Joan Laporta	1962	Catalan politician
56	Joan Marshall	1931	Actress
57	Joan Mitchell	1925	American painter
58	Joan Robinson	1903	English economist
59	Joan of Acre	1272	English princess
60	Joan Sanderson	1912	British actress
61	Joan Pringle	1945	American actress
62	Joan of Valois	1556	French princess
63	Joan I of Navarre	1273	Queen regnant of Navarre and queen consort of France
64	Joan of England, Queen of Sicily	1165	Queen of Sicily
65	Joan Embery	1952	American environmentalist
66	Joan B. Lee	1922
67	Joan Davis	1907	Actress, vaudevillian
68	Joan Freeman	1942	American actress
69	Joan of Navarre, Queen of England	1370	Queen of England
70	Joan Chittister	1936	Roman Catholic nun, activist, writer and academic
71	Joan II of Navarre	1312	Queen of Navarre (1328-1349)
72	Joan Juliet Buck	1948	American actress and writer
73	Joan Manuel Serrat	1943	Spanish singer
74	Joan Carroll	1932	American stage and film actress
75	Joan Beaufort	1404	Queen Consort of Scotland from 1424 to 1437
76	Joan Wallach Scott	1941	American academic
77	Joan Wasser	1970	American musician
78	Joan Verdú	1983	Spanish footballer
79	Joan Caulfield	1922	American actress and former fashion model
80	Joan Quigley	1927	Astrologer
81	Joan Higginbotham	1964	American engineer and a former NASA astronaut
82	Joan McCracken	1917	Actress, dancer
83	Joan Lefkow	1944	American judge
84	Joan Gale Robinson	1910	English novelist and illustrator
85	Joan Larsen	1968
86	Joan of The Tower	1321	Queen of Scotland
87	Joan Perry	1911	American actress
88	Joan Shawlee	1926	American actress
89	Joan Copeland	1922	American actress and the younger sister of playwright Arthur Miller
90	Joan Weldon	1930	American actress
91	Joan Gerber	1935	American actress
92	Joan Whitney Payson	1903	American socialite, art collector
93	Joan Cooper	1922	British actress
94	Joan Tabor	1932	American actress
95	Joan of England, Queen of Scotland	1210	Queen of Scotland
96	Joan Robinson Hill	1931	American horsewoman
97	Joan Bates	1929
98	Joan Llaneras	1943
99	Joan Le Mesurier	1932	Actor and biographer
100	Joan Feynman	1927	Astrophysicist
101	Joan Eardley	1921	Scottish artist
102	Joan Shakespeare	1569	Sister of William Shakespeare
103	Joan Chandler	1923	American stage actor
104	Joan Jonas	1936	American artist
105	Joan Ryan	1955	British politician
106	Joan of Portugal	1439	Portuguese infanta
107	Joan Targ	1938	American educator
108	Joan Benham	1918	British actress
109	Joan Riudavets	1889	Spanish racing cyclist
110	Joan of England	1334
111	Joan Blackham	1946	British actress
112	Joan Daemen	1965	Belgian cryptologist
113	Joan Halifax	1942	American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist
114	Joan Dowling	1928	British actress
115	Joan Evans	1934	American actress
116	Joan Mir	1997	Spanish motorcycle racer
117	Joan Baptista Humet i Climent	1950	Spanish composer, musician and singer (1950-2008)
118	Joan Kirner	1938	Australian politician; Premier of Victoria
119	Joan Guzmán	1976	Dominican professional boxer
120	Joan the Lame	1293	Queen consort of France as the first wife of Philip VI
121	Joan Ramon Mainat	1951	Spanish journalist and television producer (1951-2004)
122	Joan A. Steitz	1941	American biochemist
123	Joan Woodbury	1915	American actress
124	Joan Brown	1938	American artist
125	Joan Hinton	1921	American physicist
126	Joan Roughgarden	1946	American ecologist
127	Joan Prather	1950	Actress
128	Joan D. Vinge	1948	American writer
129	Joan Erikson	1902	Canadian psychologist
130	Joan Blaeu	1596	Dutch cartographer
131	Joan Carrillo Milán	1968	Spanish football manager
132	Joan Banks	1918	American actress
133	Joan Lindsay	1896	Australian writer
134	Joan Tetzel	1921	Actress
135	Joan II, Countess of Burgundy	1292	Queen of France, spouse of Philipp V
136	Joan Lorring	1926	Hong Kong-born American actress
137	Joan Tower	1938	American composer, concert pianist and conductor
138	Joan Coscubiela	1954	Spanish politician
139	Joan Fontcuberta	1955	Catalan artist
140	Joan Cañellas	1986	Spanish handball player
141	Joan Bulmer		English gentlewoman
142	Joan Tisch	1926	American billionaire
143	Joan Hotchkis	1927	American actress
144	Joan Little	1953	American acquitted of murder
145	Joan Smith	1953	English novelist, journalist and human rights activist
146	Joan Roca	1964	Spanish chef
147	Joan Tompkins	1915	American actress
148	Joan Alexander	1915	Actress
149	Joan Biskupic		American journalist
150	Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut	1294	Sister of King Philip VI of France and the mother-in-law of Edward III
151	Joan Sala i Ferrer	1594
152	Joan Woodward	1916	British sociologist
153	Joan Rice	1930	British actress
154	Joan Gaspart	1944	Spanish businessman
155	Joan Ridao i Martín	1967	Spanish politician
156	Joan Holland		English noblewoman
157	Joan Dillon	1935	French duchess
158	Joan Oumari	1988	German-Lebanese footballer
159	Joan Collins	1961	Irish politician
160	Joan Finney	1925	American politician
161	Joan Ruddock	1943	Welsh politician
162	Joan Weston	1935	American roller derby skater
163	Joan Larke	1490	Mistress of Thomas Wolsely
164	Joan Benedict Steiger		American actress
165	Joan Regan	1928	English pop music singer
166	Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville	1286	English noble
167	Joan Riviere	1883	British psychoanalyst
168	Joan Pera	1948	Spanish actor and voice actor
169	Joan Campins	1995	Spanish footballer
170	Joan Peters	1938	American writer
171	Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre	1343	Daughter of John II of France (called The Good), and his first wife, Bonne of Luxembourg, as wife of Charles II of Navarre (called The Bad) Queen-consort of Navarre
172	Joan E. Spero	1944	American diplomat
173	Joan Hamburg	1935	American radio personality
174	Joan Oriol	1986	Spanish footballer
175	Joan Harrison	1907	English film producer and screenwriter
176	Joan C. Williams	1952	Feminist psychologist
177	Joan Crockatt	1955	Canadian politician
178	Joan Child	1921	Australian politician
179	Joan Tewkesbury	1936	American film and television director, screenwriter, producer and actress
180	Joan Kelly	1928	American historian
181	Joan Lee	1952	Cricketer
182	Joan Jordan	1994	Spanish footballer
183	Joan Joyce	1940	American softball players, volleyball player, basketball player, professional golfer, coach
184	Joan Micklin Silver	1935	Film director, Screenwriter
185	Joan Stewart, Countess of Morton		Scottish princess
186	Joan Snyder	1940	American artist
187	Joan Tomás Campasol	1985	Spanish footballer
188	Joan McAlpine	1962	Scottish journalist and politician
189	Joan Hooley	1936	British actress
190	Joan Turner	1922	British actor and singer
191	Joan Vohs	1927
192	Joan López Alegre	1968	Spanish politician
193	Joan of Valois, Duchess of Alençon	1409	French duchess
194	Joan of Lancaster	1312	English noble
195	Joan Ángel Román	1993	Spanish footballer
196	Joan Darling	1935	American actress and director
197	Joan Grant	1907	English author
198	Joan Crosas	1947	Spanish actor and singer
199	Joan Sydney	1936	Actress
200	Joan Nestle	1940	American writer