Joanna or Joanne?

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Or both too dated??

My name is Joanna and it does get tiring constantly being referred to as Joanne. Even in emails where I’ve signed off as Joanna.

I’ve never felt my name was pretty ir anything. It’s quite plain to me.

@MattieandmummyandIs I must admit I do pronounce Joanna as Jo-wanna. I can't quite imagine what the alternative is? Do you have a little pause between Jo and Anna instead?

I like it! And I was born in the nineties as well... the only Joanne I know is only a couple of years older than me so it doesn't sound dated to my ears

@Salacia , I only picked Shannon because a friend has one and it was a name that was very popular for a short time. It just sounds like a surname to me.

The Betty thing might be regional but the 85-yr old were mostly Bettys where I'm from, and there were a lot of them.

@Hols24 , depending on accents, sometimes extra sounds get added to names or sounds removed. Where I am, Raphael gets said as Raffuh-yell, Joel as Jo-well, Naomi as Na-yomi, Ottilie as O'illy etc. Joanna probably gets said with a prominent W sound where the pp is, whereas is should be more like the o in No or Phone.

People are nuts, how is Joanie any less dated as a name? It's more old lady than Joanne or Joanna.

Also why should the fact people don't "know anybody under the age of 40" be a reason not to make a child that. I'd say it was an even better reason!

Joanna is nicer than Joanne. (And for the record I know a Joanne born in the mid-2000s).

@DocOck , fashions come round in cycles and names popular about 100 years ago are now trendy. Joanne was very popular in the 1960, whereas Joan would have been more 1930s.

So Joanne would be your DM's age, Joan your DGM's name. Joan will fit in more with names like Elsie and Alfie etc.

Yeah I get that @KirstenBlest but Joan is not a nice name or one I could see coming around anytime soon, which I guess is why people try to make it cutsie with 'Joanie'. Still sounds way more dated than the other "old lady chic" names.

@DocOck , I think it is nice name, but it depends on taste. I don't like the frilly or vowelly names.
I'd say Joan fits in with the Arthur, Reggie, Elsie type names. Jean does too.

See Jean still feels too recent, I have an auntie Jean who is only 50s, so that's not a baby name to me! @KirstenBlest

Are you sure she's not quietly knocking a few years off her age?

😂 Possibly

Not sure about dated - maybe!

I know a 32 year old Joanne and I don't like the name.

I also know a 26 year old Joanna and the name really suits her.

@Hols24 I suppose I just say it as it is spelt - Jo and Anna. I'm not conscious of saying it with a gap between the two but I definitely say Anna rather than Wanna!

I’m another Joanna , I really like my name. I’ve gone by the shortening Jo since childhood to avoid being miscalled Joanne , which used to happen a lot as a child (nothing against the name Joanne but it’s not my name). Sometimes I think it would be nice to use Joanna more but probably a bit late for that now.

80??
I'm 50 and Joanne/ Joanna were quite popular when I was a child
Names come in and out of fashion its a bit dated but it don't think its an awful name .

I love both, also love Josephine

I think Joanne is a really pretty name and Joanna, although it is nice it just feels a lot more common than Joanne. Joanne is more elegant and less of them

My experience is the opposite. I’ve met way more Joanne’s than Joanna’s to the point where every Joanna I’ve met automatically get called Joanne.

One of my best friends is called Joanne, she is 29. She was Jojo as a young child, Jo as a teen, and goes by Joanne now. It's not just the middle-aged with this name!

I quite like the sound of Joanna!

Joanie?

Of the two Joanna. I have known two Joanne’s, one my age (mid thirties), the other late twenties though her birth name is Giovanna how she ended up being a Joanne I don’t know. Never Josephine, it is the most frumpy, dull name ever.

Joanna id choose.

Both my nans were called Joan, born in the 1920s. I’m not keen on Joan but I love Joanie - it’s cool and retro, and has Joni Mitchell vibes

Out of Joanne and Joanna I prefer Joanna but there were a lot in my age group, now mid 40s - I can’t decide if it works for a baby now or not.

Joanna! It's fine!

There is also Johanna too

Also Jocelyn ? (Joss)