Given name
Jóhanna
Jóhanna is a feminine given name. It is used in Faroese and Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Icelandic usage, Jóhanna is a feminine form of Jóhannes.
Jóhanna’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Jóhanna shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Bokmål form JOHANNE. In Icelandic usage, Jóhanna has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jeanne. In German usage, Jóhanna has a related form in Johanna.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jóhanna has relatives in 5 languages.
6 related names in 5 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 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jóhanna
- Jóhanna SigurðardóttirIcelandic politicianborn 1942
- YohannaIcelandic-Danish singerborn 1990
- SissalFaroese singerborn 1995
- Jóhanna Vala JónsdóttirIcelandic modelborn 1986
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