Johanne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Hebrew occasionally used in English
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒhan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Johanne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 782
- NONorway1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- 1 in 782 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, masculine equivalent Johannes, equivalent to English Jane
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Johanne is read(measured from records)
Johanne is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
A female given name from Hebrew occasionally used in English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Johanne in French.
- Norwegian5.5%
- Danish5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Johanne in Danish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Johanne, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Johanne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Johanne | 5 |
| CA Canada | #517 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 5 | Johanne | 206 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7,509 | 1 in 782 | 7.5K | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,440 | 1 in 1K | 19K | Johanne | 58 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 4.9K | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,378 | 1 in 7.3K | 2.4K | Johanne | 32 |
| GL Greenland | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 271 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the ca-statcan-baby-names register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Johanne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, German form of Jean.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Russian, var of Ioann.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelmine Reichardb. 1788DEnot in their usual name19th century aeronaut
- Johanne Luise Heibergb. 1812DKDanish actress (1812–1890)
- Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenbergb. 1831DEnot in their usual nameWife of Miguel I of Portugal (1831–1909)
- Johanne Bindesbøllb. 1851DKDanish textile artist (1851–1934)
- Johanne Stockmarrb. 1869DKDanish pianist
- Hannah Höchb. 1889DEnot in their usual nameGerman artist (1889–1978)
- Inger Jacobsenb. 1923NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer (1923–1996)
- Johanne Schmidt-Nielsenb. 1984DKDanish politician
- Morissetteb. 1996PHnot in their usual nameFilipino singer and songwriter (born 1996)
- Johanne Killib. 1997NONorwegian freestyle skier
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 40 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Johanne come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Johannes, equivalent to English Jane Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Johanne?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Hanna, Hanne and Janne are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Johanne?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒhan/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Johanne a male or female name?
- Johanne is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Johanne mean?
- In English, A female given name from Hebrew occasionally used in English.
- In which country does Johanne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Johanne in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johanne.
- Where is Johanne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Johanne is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 782 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Johanne?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 7,509 people named Johanne, about 1 in 782 residents.
- How common is Johanne compared with other names?
- In Canada, Johanne is the 517th most common given name of 188,338 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Johanne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johanneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Johanne” — the 517th most common given name in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.