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JOANNA

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Polish, Biblical

Pronounced: jo-AN-? (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.

MATILDA

Gender: Feminine



Usage: English, Swedish, Finnish, Slovak



Pronounced: m?-TIL-d? (English) [key]



From the Germanic name Mahthildis meaning "strength in battle", from the elements maht "might, strength" and hild "battle". Saint Matilda was the wife of the 10th-century German king Henry I the Fowler. The name was brought to England by the Normans, being borne by the wife of William the Conqueror himself. It was popular until the 15th century in England, usually in the vernacular form Maud. Both forms were revived by the 19th century. This name appears in the popular Australian folk song 'Waltzing Matilda', written in 1895.



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