Given name & surname
Ioana
Ioana is a feminine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Romanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ioana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 91
- 0 boys · 91 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,816 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,816 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,589 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ioana’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Ioana has a short form in OANA. In Romanian usage, Ioana has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Juana. In German usage, Ioana has a related form in Johanna.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ioana has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ioana
- Raluca OlaruRomanian tennis playerborn 1989
- Ioana BadeaRomanian rowerborn 1964
- Ioana OlteanuRomanian rowerborn 1966
- Ioana RotaruRomanian rowerborn 1984
- Ioana VrînceanuRomanian rowerborn 1994
- Ioana StrungaruRomanian rowerborn 1989
- Ioana TudoranRomanian rowerborn 1948
- Ioana DumitriuRomanian-American mathematicianborn 1976
- Ioana BulcăRomanian actress1936–2025
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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