Is Joann a male or female name?
Joann is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 100% and male usage in France at 93%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 99%
- Sample size
- 158,532
- Confidence
- high
Joann by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 100% | 157,388 | ssa |
| France FR | male | 93% | 680 | insee |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 194 | cso |
| England and Wales GB | female | 100% | 110 | nrs |
| Canada CA | female | 100% | 64 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | female | 66% | 58 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 84% | 31 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 7 | statat |
Attested in 13 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · PL · SE · US
Joann over time
In the United States, 100% of the babies named Joann in the 1900s were girls, against 96.8% in the 2020s. In France, 0% of the babies named Joann in the 1980s were girls, against 5.9% in the 2010s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 100% | 102 | — | |
| 1910s | 100% | 593 | — | |
| 1920s | 100% | 5,584 | — | |
| 1930s | 100% | 34,830 | — | |
| 1940s | 100% | 40,143 | — | |
| 1950s | 100% | 32,728 | — | |
| 1960s | 100% | 24,970 | — | |
| 1970s | 100% | 9,861 | — | |
| 1980s | 100% | 4,296 | 0% | 140 |
| 1990s | 99% | 2,071 | — | |
| 2000s | 96% | 1,155 | 6% | 160 |
| 2010s | 98% | 722 | 6% | 170 |
| 2020s | 97% | 311 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Joann with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Joann&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Joann
Is Joann a male or female name?
Joann is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 100% and male usage in France at 93%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Joann change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Joann identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.