Johanna

Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form Iōanna lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek /h/ could only occur initially. For more information on the name's origin, see the article on Joanna.

This article is about the name. For the 2005 film, see Johanna (film).
Johanna
Pronunciation/dʒoʊˈ(h)ænə/;
German: [joˈhana]
Genderfemale
Origin
Word/nameHebrew > Greek > Latin
MeaningGod is gracious
Other names
Related namesJan, Jane, Janet, Janice, Jean, Jo, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanne, Johann

Women named Johanna
Jóhanna
  • Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (born 1942), Iceland's first female Prime Minister and the world's first openly gay head of government of the modern era
  • Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, a.k.a. Yohanna, Icelandic singer

Masculine name

Fictional characters
  • Johanna (character), a character in Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street named "Johanna Barker" in Sondheim's musical adaptation
  • a role in August Bournonville's comic ballet The Kermesse in Bruges
  • Johanna Mason, a character in the popular Hunger Games series, being mentioned without a name in the first novel and appearing as a main character in Catching Fire and Mockingjay.
  • Johanna Reyes, a character in the Divergent series beginning with Insurgent. She is the leader of the Amity faction.
  • Johanna, a playable character in the video game Heroes of the Storm.
  • Johanna, the motorcycle-shaped persona of Makoto Nijima in Persona 5.

Song and movie titles

Other occurrences

Name day
gollark: Oh, so the bad old days where every language had its own charset.
gollark: The stuff I have running, I mean.
gollark: Well, at least it's not the EWO server code.
gollark: ...
gollark: osmarks.tk has full UTF-8 capability, fortunately.

See also

References
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