Joan (given name)

Joan
	Joan of Arc was largely responsible for the popularity of the name Joan for girls in the English-speaking world in recent years.
Pronunciation	English: /dʒoʊn/; Catalan-Valencian, Occitan: [(d)ʒuˈan] ;
Gender	Female (for Anglosphere name); Male (in Catalan-Valencian languages and Occitan language; the local form of John);
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	The Lord is gracious
Other names
Related names	Female: Jaana and Jana, Jane and Janet or "Jan", Jean, Jeanne, Johanna and Johanne, Joanne, Juana and Juanita, Joana, Ivana, Jovana and Jovanka, Ioana, Siân, Siobhán, Siwan; Male:; Evan and Ivan, Ian and Iain, Ifan and Iefan, Ioan, Ion, Jaan, Jan, João, Johan, Jouan, Jovan, Shane, Siôn, Seán, Sean and Shaun, Yanne.;

Joan (female name: /dʒoʊn/; male name: [(d)ʒuˈan]) is both a feminine form of the personal name John given to girls in the Anglosphere; and the native masculine form of John in the Catalan-Valencian and Occitan languages. In both cases, the name is derived from the Greek via the Latin Ioannes and Ioanna (or Johannes and Johanna), and is thus cognate with John and related to its many forms, including its derived feminine forms.

The name was disseminated widely into many languages and cultures from the Greek name Ἰωάννης (romanised, Iōannēs), along with its feminine form Koine Greek: Ἰωάννα, romanized: Iōanna (romanised, Iōanna). Its ultimate origin, as with John, is from the Hebrew Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן‎), "Graced by Yah", or Yehohanan (יְהוֹחָנָן‎), "Yahweh is Gracious".