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JOANNA
Gender: Feminine Usage: English, Polish, Biblical Pronounced: jo-AN-ə (English), yaw-AHN-nah (Polish) [key] English and Polish form of Latin Iohanna, which was derived from Greek Ιωαννα (Ioanna), the feminine form of Ioannes (see JOHN). This was the name of a follower of Jesus in the New Testament. In the Middle Ages in England it was used as a Latinized form of Joan, and it became common as an English given name in the 19th century.
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