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Infobox Given Name Revised| name = Joanne| image=| imagesize=| caption=-- User:Lordbaltimore2011|Lordbaltimore2011 ( User talk:Lordbaltimore2011|talk ) 20:06, 30 November 2011 (UTC)| pronunciation= IPA-en|d?o?'æn|lang| gender = Female| meaning = God is gracious| region =| origin = Hebrew| related names = Joan, Joanna, Johanna| footnotes = Joanne (alternate spellings Joann , JoAnn , Johann , Johanne , Jo-Ann , Jo-Anne ) is a common given name for females, being a variant of Joanna , the feminine form of John (name)|John ; derived from the Latin name Johanna with the meaning in Hebrew of "God is gracious". In Northern Ireland of 1975, "Joanne" was the most frequently used name for female newborns, though by the early years of the 21st Century, the name had declined in popularity so that it could not be counted among the twenty most frequently used.cite press release | title = Jack and Emma were the most popular first names in Northern Ireland in 2003 | publisher = Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency | date = 2004-01-02 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 | url = http://www.groni.gov.uk/Publication/512004111434.pdf | format = PDF | quote = (see tables "Comparison with 1975" and "Top 20 Names 2000-2003")
Sometimes in modern English Joanne is reinterpreted as a compound of the two names Jo and Anne, and therefore given a spelling like JoAnne, Jo-Anne, or Jo Anne. However, the original name Joanna in ancient Greek and Latin is a single unit, not a compound. The names Hannah (given name)|Hannah , Anna (name)|Anna , Anne, Ann are etymologically related to Joanne just the same: they are derived from Hebrew ?????? Unicode|?annah 'grace' from the same verbal root meaning 'to be gracious'.
In the United Kingdom , its popularity peaked during the 1970s, when it was frequently among the 10 most popular female names. However, by the 1980s it had fallen out of the top 10 and by 1994 it wasn't even in the top 100. http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_Joanne.htm
People with the given name Joanne
Joanne Accom , pop singer from Melbourne, Australia
Joanne Banning , Australian field hockey player
Joanne Brackeen , American jazz pianist
Joanne Campbell , British actress
Joanne Colan , video blogger
Joanne Deakins , British backstroke swimmer
Joanne Dru , American actress
Joanne Durant , Barbadian track and field sprinter
Joanne Woodward , American actress, Academy Award winner in 1957, for The Three Faces of Eve; Wife of Paul Newman , American Actor
Jo Anne Worley , American actress
Jo Anne , American Slave referred to only by her first name in all documents found. Recently discovered historical documents found on the property of what was formally known as The Loyola plantation in southern Florida show she was the "House Negro" of "Master Anthony". Her personal diary was recently discovered in which it gives an fascinating portrayal by her own account of the subservient yet extremely loyal house slaves towards their master. Uniquely this diary also details the divisions between slaves in the house and in the fields and the betrayal of Joanne to her fellow slaves even those in her own family. The diary is currently in the process of being bid upon by various auction houses.
Songs containing references to 'Joanne'
" Joanne (song)|Joanne " by Michael Nesmith|Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
Companies
Jo-Ann Stores , a specialty retailer of crafts and fabrics in the United States
Joanne's Bed and Back , a retailer of specialty furniture in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
References
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External links
http://web.archive.org/web/20091027144459/ http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/j/joanna.html "Joanna" at Edgar's Name Pages - with history, naming frequency statistics, related names, and famous namebearers
Icons of St. Joanna the Myrrh-Bearer http://www.comeandseeicons.com/j/inp76.htm here and http://www.comeandseeicons.com/j/sgp15.htm here
given name|Joanne|nocat Category:Feminine given names Category:English feminine given names Category:Polish feminine given names
