Ioanna
Most Poles have never met an Ioanna: only about 136 women carry it. A Hebrew name at root, meaning "god is gracious", and a rarer cousin of Joanna.
Ioanna Pronunciation
Ioanna is pronounced yo-AHN-nah (/jɔˈanna/).
What Ioanna means
Where Ioanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ioanna reaches back to the Hebrew Yochanan, which means god is gracious. Greek speakers reshaped that name into Ioannes, the root behind John, and formed its feminine as Ioanna. In Poland the same name settles into Joanna.
From Joanna comes Asia, the diminutive a friend or a teacher uses. On a school register the full Joanna appears in ink. In the corridor she answers to Asia. Both forms belong to one girl, and both trace to the same Hebrew source.
The meaning stays close to the surface. God is gracious was a statement about mercy before it became a name on any Polish birth form. Ioanna keeps that older sense. Whoever holds the name holds a short Hebrew phrase about grace, wearing the Greek form Ioanna.
How many people are named Ioanna
1 in 165763 women in Poland is named Ioanna. 136 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2834 among female names.
Ioanna's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1608 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Ioanna as a middle name
Ioanna is a first name for 136 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1616th, between Inês (20) and Isaura (20).
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#1614 Indira20
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#1615 Inês20
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#1616 Ioanna20
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#1617 Isaura20
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#1618 İrem20