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Joanne

Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Joanne: French variation of Joanna Meaning of Joanne: "God is gracious"

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A Top 100 name from the 1930s all the way through the 1950s, it's now firmly in Mom -- or Grandma -- land and supplanted for babies by Joanna.....or even great-grandmother Josephine. In its heyday, it had a host of variations, including JoAnn and Jo-Anne.

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Famous People Named Joanne

Joanne Froggatt, British actress who plays Anna on "Downton Abbey"
Joanne Whalley, English actress starring in "The Borgias"
Joanne Woodward, American actress, wife of Paul Newman
Joanne Kathleen "J. K." Rowling, author of the famous "Harry Potter" series

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