Johanna

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Johanna is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

Johanna is the feminine form of the Greek name Johannes . This comes from the Hebrew name Jochanan (Hebrew either יוֹחָנָן jôḥānān or יְהוֹחָנָן jәhôḥānān ). The name Jochanan is a sentence name. The subject forms the theophore element יֹו , the predicate comes from the root חנן ḥnn “jem. incline / be gracious / have mercy on him ”. The name therefore means "God is gracious".

distribution

In the late 19th century and into the 1910s, the name was often among the twenty most popular names for girls in Germany. Its popularity then slowly declined at first, but fell sharply in the mid-1930s. In the mid-1980s, its popularity increased again significantly. Since the mid-1990s, he has been among the twenty most common girl names a few times.

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Bible

Middle Ages and early modern times

Recent and recent history

Fictional people

Individual evidence

  1. Jutta Krispenz:  Johanan. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
  2. Gesenius , 16th ed. 1915, p. 245
  3. Statistics on "Popular first names"
  4. ^ Fr. S. Huegel: The Viennese dialect. Lexicon of the Viennese vernacular , Hartleben, Vienna-Pest-Leipzig 1873, p. 134 "Schanettl", "Schani"

See also

Wiktionary: Johanna  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations