Joan (first name)
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| Gender | female, sometimes male |
| Meaning | The Lord's grace |
| Related names | Joanna |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Joan |
Joan is mainly a female name in the English language, but a male name in French and in Catalan. It is related to the names John, Jane, Jean, Johan, Joanna, Juan, Ivan and Siobhán. It comes from Latin Joanna, from Hebrew, meaning 'The Lord's grace'. The name ultimately derived from the Biblical Hebrew name יוחנן Yôḥānān, short for יהוחנן Yəhôḥānān, meaning "Yahweh is merciful". Some commonly known uses include:
- Joan of Arc
- Joan of Arcadia, a popular drama series on CBS
- Joan Baez, a famous folk singer-songwriter; Joan (album) was a 1967 album by Joan Baez
- Joan Benoit, American marathoner
- Joan Caulfield, American film actress
- Joan Collins, English television and film actress and bestselling author
- Joan Crawford, iconic, Oscar-winning actress
- Joan Daemen, the Belgian cryptographer and inventor of Rijndael
- Joan Didion, an American writer.
- Joan Fontaine, an Oscar-winning film American actress
- Joan Gamper, a Swiss-born Catalan footballer and businessman most famous as the founder of FC Barcelona
- Joan Gaspart, a Catalan businessman and former president of FC Barcelona
- Joan Hansen, American long-distance runner
- Joan Jett, the musician
- Joan of Kent was the wife of Edward the Black Prince and mother of Richard II of England
- Joan Laporta, a (male) Catalan lawyer who has been the president of FC Barcelona since 2003
- Joan of Lorraine, a play by Maxwell Anderson
- Joan Miro, a famous (male) Catalan artist
- Joan I of Naples
- Joan II of Naples
- Joan Orenstein, a Canadian actress
- Joan Rivers, an American comedian, talk show host, businesswoman, and celebrity
- Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer
- Joan Wyndham, British writer and memoirist
- Joanie Cunningham is a character on Happy Days.
- Sow Joan, an Animal Crossing series character
- Pope Joan, a 9th century legend
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