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The table below indicates the number of times the name Joan has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Joan**
Use of the Name Joan for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
1,720	576	576	576	576	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Joan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Joan last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2002, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Joan**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880			508	12
1881			784	6
1882			583	11
1883			867	6
1884			661	11
1885			772	9
1886			563	16
1887			600	15
1888			704	14
1889			562	21
1890			628	18
1891			736	14
1892			473	33
1893			619	22
1894			651	21
1895			569	28
1896			542	31
1897			516	33
1898			487	40
1899			584	28
1900			439	58
1901			424	51
1902			388	65
1903			402	63
1904			387	73
1905			327	106
1906			343	94
1907			336	109
1908			353	104
1909			303	142
1910			279	195
1911			253	233
1912			250	317
1913			240	409
1914			217	577
1915			212	781
1916			211	824
1917			182	1,047
1918			160	1,383
1919			174	1,252
1920			143	1,648
1921			142	1,793
1922			127	2,011
1923			117	2,306
1924			95	3,027
1925			66	4,025
1926			51	4,997
1927			41	6,032
1928			27	7,859
1929	908	55	13	11,655
1930	782	67	8	15,481
1931	666	81	5	19,096
1932	642	88	5	21,025
1933	764	64	5	19,278
1934	656	85	7	19,459
1935	619	90	7	18,206
1936	657	80	7	17,072
1937	622	88	9	15,280
1938	726	71	10	14,291
1939	742	66	11	14,135
1940	791	62	14	13,284
1941	715	75	17	13,360
1942	789	67	18	14,509
1943	924	52	21	13,205
1944	870	53	22	11,909
1945			25	10,405
1946			28	11,202
1947			30	11,267
1948			37	9,257
1949			36	9,199
1950			40	8,866
1951			39	9,381
1952			37	10,262
1953			37	9,775
1954			40	9,514
1955			46	8,560
1956			52	8,082
1957			60	7,577
1958			68	6,778
1959			76	6,336
1960			80	5,880
1961			89	5,546
1962			94	4,886
1963			95	4,556
1964			99	4,151
1965			116	3,286
1966			133	2,726
1967			150	2,303
1968			182	1,786
1969			201	1,569
1970			237	1,313
1971			280	1,024
1972			322	732
1973			367	578
1974			369	582
1975			378	551
1976			433	461
1977			456	432
1978			462	425
1979			502	399
1980			491	421
1981			499	402
1982			537	360
1983			536	348
1984			563	327
1985			601	315
1986			646	285
1987			669	278
1988			686	280
1989			708	280
1990			763	270
1991			807	253
1992			800	252
1993			896	215
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000	911	169
2001	863	186
2002	777	221
Totals:		1,720		477,148

During the last 125 years, parents have used Joan as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Joan appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 19 times during the last 125 years.

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