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Johan vs Joanna - What's the difference?

johan | joanna |

As a proper noun johan

is , an equivalent of john.

johan

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1893 Frank Peel, Spen Valley, Past and Present , Senior and Co., 1893, page 64:
  • *:William, the youthful heir, grew up, married and died, as we have already seen, of the sweating sickness, leaving only a daughter named Johan or Jennett, who was but two months old at his death;
  • Usage notes

    * Included in the hundred most common given names of women born in Scotland in 1900. ----

    joanna

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) A piano.
  • * 2006 , "
  • But I don't feel like dancin'
    When the old Joanna plays
    My heart could take a chance
    But my two feet can't find a way