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The name Joan is of Greek origin, and is a feminine form of John. The table below indicates the number of times the name Joan has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Joan**
Use of the Name Joan for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
477,148	84,805	4,286	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Joan has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Joan last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 2002, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Joan**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	508	12
1881	784	6
1882	583	11
1883	867	6
1884	661	11
1885	772	9
1886	563	16
1887	600	15
1888	704	14
1889	562	21
1890	628	18
1891	736	14
1892	473	33
1893	619	22
1894	651	21
1895	569	28
1896	542	31
1897	516	33
1898	487	40
1899	584	28
1900	439	58
1901	424	51
1902	388	65
1903	402	63
1904	387	73
1905	327	106
1906	343	94
1907	336	109
1908	353	104
1909	303	142
1910	279	195
1911	253	233
1912	250	317
1913	240	409
1914	217	577
1915	212	781
1916	211	824
1917	182	1,047
1918	160	1,383
1919	174	1,252
1920	143	1,648
1921	142	1,793
1922	127	2,011
1923	117	2,306
1924	95	3,027
1925	66	4,025
1926	51	4,997
1927	41	6,032
1928	27	7,859
1929	13	11,655	908	55
1930	8	15,481	782	67
1931	5	19,096	666	81
1932	5	21,025	642	88
1933	5	19,278	764	64
1934	7	19,459	656	85
1935	7	18,206	619	90
1936	7	17,072	657	80
1937	9	15,280	622	88
1938	10	14,291	726	71
1939	11	14,135	742	66
1940	14	13,284	791	62
1941	17	13,360	715	75
1942	18	14,509	789	67
1943	21	13,205	924	52
1944	22	11,909	870	53
1945	25	10,405
1946	28	11,202
1947	30	11,267
1948	37	9,257
1949	36	9,199
1950	40	8,866
1951	39	9,381
1952	37	10,262
1953	37	9,775
1954	40	9,514
1955	46	8,560
1956	52	8,082
1957	60	7,577
1958	68	6,778
1959	76	6,336
1960	80	5,880
1961	89	5,546
1962	94	4,886
1963	95	4,556
1964	99	4,151
1965	116	3,286
1966	133	2,726
1967	150	2,303
1968	182	1,786
1969	201	1,569
1970	237	1,313
1971	280	1,024
1972	322	732
1973	367	578
1974	369	582
1975	378	551
1976	433	461
1977	456	432
1978	462	425
1979	502	399
1980	491	421
1981	499	402
1982	537	360
1983	536	348
1984	563	327
1985	601	315
1986	646	285
1987	669	278
1988	686	280
1989	708	280
1990	763	270
1991	807	253
1992	800	252
1993	896	215
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000			911	169
2001			863	186
2002			777	221
Totals:		477,148		1,720

During the last 125 years, parents have used Joan as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Joan appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 114 times during the last 125 years.

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