Joanne’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Joanne
Joanne's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Joanne's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Joanne: meaning and origin
Joanne is a variant of Joan or Johanne, according to Behind the Name, and Wikipedia says it comes from the Greek Joanna via the French Johanne. Behind the Name explains that Joanna is the feminine form of Ioannes, the Greek form of John, and the spelling used in the English New Testament. Wikipedia notes that Joanne has sometimes been reinterpreted in modern English as a compound of Jo and Anne, as in Jo-Anne. It also says Joanne was the most frequently given name for newborn girls in Northern Ireland in 1975.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Jo, Joanie, Joetta, Joni, Jonie and Jonette as English diminutives and Joannie in Quebec French, with Joan, Joann and Jonelle as variants. Wikipedia adds the spellings Jo-Anne, JoAnne and Jo Anne. Jo is the classic, and Joni has a folk-singer feel.
Famous people named Joanne
Joanne Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve (1957) and was married to Paul Newman for fifty years; Wikipedia says she is the oldest living Best Actress winner. The author of Harry Potter was born Joanne Rowling and writes as J. K. Rowling. And Lady Gaga, whose middle name is Joanne, named her 2016 album Joanne after her late aunt, Joanne Stefani Germanotta.
Is Joanne a popular name?
Joanne is a mid-century name. US Social Security data has it at its best rank, 53rd, in the 1930s and 54th in the 1940s. Its biggest decade was the 1950s, when more than 53,000 American girls were named Joanne, at 82nd. It fell to 123rd in the 1960s before leaving the top 200.
Joanne trivia
J. K. Rowling has no middle name. Wikipedia says her publisher, Bloomsbury, suggested two initials because young boys might not want to read a book by a woman, so she chose K for her paternal grandmother, Kathleen. Her manuscript had already been rejected by twelve publishers.
Gift ideas that suit a Joanne
- For a young writer. Story ideas, for a name shared with the author of Harry Potter.
- For a classic film fan. Watch lists, in honor of Joanne Woodward.
- For a Lady Gaga fan. Lyrics and setlists, for a name with its own album.
- For a 70th birthday. Joanne peaked in the 1950s, so milestone birthdays are here.
How Joanne can use it
Any Joanne, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Joanne can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Joanne’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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