Lisa vs Joanne - What's the difference?

lisa | joanne |

As proper nouns the difference between lisa and joanne

is that lisa is {{given name|female|from=Hebrew}} while Joanne is {{given name|female|from=Hebrew}}.

lisa

English

Proper noun

(s)

You were born in the '70s? Were you named after on As the World Turns?

Usage notes

* Taken to general use as a full English given name in early 20th century. Very popular in the U.S. in the 1960s, and in the U.K. a decade later.

Quotations

* 1868 Concocted by William Meynell Whittmore (and others): Sunshine : page 138: *: Elizabeth coloured. *: "Oh, I don't want the doll called after me, if that is what you mean," she said, rather disdainfully. *: "Nonsense, Lisa !" laughed her father, "you ought to consider yourself highly honoured to have such a handsome lady as this for your namesake." * 1997 , Moon Tiger . Grove Press. ISBN0802135331 *: Lisa' is a better name. Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh. Bang - whoom! ' Lisa makes a nice silky noise, like streams or rain. * 2007 , My Latest Grievance ISBN 0618872353 page 16: *: Did I want to be burdened with a common name? Be the third Lisa and fourth Susan in my classroom? Darleen or Doreen or Maureen? *: I did.

Anagrams

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joanne

English

Alternative forms

* JoAnne, Jo-Anne, Jo Anne * Joann, JoAnn, Jo-Ann, Jo Ann

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

* 1824 , The History of Matthew Wald , E. Duyckinck, Collins & Hannay, page 112:

"I have," said I; "and I have seen the young ladies too, except Miss Joanne ."

"Ye may just as weel lay by the Miss, and ca' her Joan, like her mother afore her, noo -

* 1981 , Bodily Harm , Anchor Books, ISBN 0385491077, page 16:

She changed it when she was thirty-eight because, as she said, what can you do with a name like Joanne ? Too nice.