“joan”

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*FAMOUS JOANS*

*FICTIONAL JOANS*

*SONGS FOR JOAN*

***GOLD STANDARD***

JOANNE GOLDSTEIN

JOAN HECKER PLASNER

(“joan” is mainly a female name in the english language, but can be a male name in catalan, occitan, and dutch)

(it is related to the names ‘john’, ‘jane’, ‘jean’, ‘jeanne’, ‘johan’, ‘joanna’, ‘juan’, ‘joão’, ‘ivana’, ‘jovan’, ‘jovana’, ‘ioan’, ‘ioana’, ‘jan’, ‘jann’, ‘yanne’, ‘jouan’, ‘ioan’, ‘siobhán’, and ‘siún’)

(the english female name is an english form of the old french name ‘johanne’, a female variant of the male name ‘johannes’)

(the name ultimately derives from the biblical hebrew name יוחנן Yôḥānān, short for יהוחנן Yəhôḥānān, meaning “Yahweh is merciful”)