CHINAdaily - Found Jun. 29, 2009 Joanna Wang performs at her solo concert in Shanghai on June 28, 2009. [Pohto: Oriental Morning Post] Following a successful Shanghai gig on Sunday,
Huffington Post - Found Jun. 25, 2009 Bitten and Bound: Joanna Philbin, 34 year old daughter of talk show host Regis Philbin and Joy Philbin, is about to become a published author.
HotOnlineNews.com RSS Feed - Found Jun. 23, 2009 ber-hot Polish supermodel Joanna Krupa is one of the celebrities featured on the upcoming show The Superstars, described by ABC as "eight athletes
Hawick News - Found Jun. 23, 2009 Roger Parrish visited Paris last Thursday to meet magistrates and discuss progress made in the lengthy investigation into his daughter Joanna's ...
Cedar Rapids Gazette - Found Jun. 22, 2009 Joanna was born Nov. 24, 1929, in Clarion, Iowa, to William and Nica (Fay) Corkery. Joanna married Donald Vontalge on May 23, 1959, at St...
Hendersonville Times News - Found Jul. 1, 2009 Surviving are her daughters, Joanna Martin and husband, Joseph, of Penrose, Jacqueline Heise of Leola, Pa., and Phyllis Pedersen and her...
The earliest recorded occurrence of the name Joanna, in Luke 8:3, refers to the disciple "Joanna the wife of Chuza," who was an associate of Mary Magdalene. Her name as given is Greek in form, although it ultimately originated from the Hebrew masculine name יְהוֹחָנָן Yehôḥānān or יוֹחָנָן Yôḥānān meaning 'God is gracious'. In Greek this name became Ιωαννης Iōannēs, from which Iōanna was derived by giving it a feminine ending. The original Latin form Joanna was used in English to translate the equivalents in other languages; for example, Juana la Loca is known in English as Joanna the Mad. The variant form Johanna originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The Greek form lacks a medial -h- because in Greek /h/ could only occur initially.
The Hebrew name יוֹחָנָה Yôḥānnāh was borne by men in earlier centuries, but in modern usage it has become feminine, to provide a Hebrew equivalent for the name Joanna and its variants. The Christian Arabic form of John is يوحنّا Yūḥannā, based on the Syriac form of the name. For Joanna, Arabic translations of the Bible use يونّا Yuwannā based on Syriac ܝܘܚܢ Yoanna, which in turn is based on the Greek form Iōanna.
Sometimes in modern English Joanna is reinterpreted as a compound of the two names Jo and Anna, and therefore given a spelling like JoAnna, Jo-Anna, or Jo Anna. However, the original name Joanna is a single unit, not a compound. The names Hannah, Anna, Anne, Ann are etymologically related to Joanna just the same: they are derived from Hebrew חַנָּה Ḥannāh 'grace' from the same verbal root meaning 'to be gracious'.
Women named Joanna
Saint Joanna, one of the women associated with the ministry of Jesus Christ. She brought myrrh to Christ's sepulchre and discovered the empty tomb (Luke 24:10).
