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Joanne

Gender: F

Origin of Joanne: French variation of Joanna

Meaning of Joanne: "God is gracious"

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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Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author of the famous Harry Potter series.
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