Entry № 4799 · Other origin

Jana Jana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Jane"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Czech)

A name that means "jane".

Jana is from the Czech / Slovak / German / Dutch Jana — Central European feminine of John — from the Hebrew Yochanan (Yahweh is gracious). Jana is one of the Czech + Slovak + Dutch + German + Slovenian + Croatian feminine names — consistently among the most-popular feminine names across Central Europe + the broader Slavic + Germanic linguistic spheres.

Jane.

The name in its native script.

Jana
Transliteration
Jana
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jana stands.

Jana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Janas before her.

Real people
Jana Novotná
Czech tennis Wimbledon 1998 singles champion.
1968 – 2017
In fiction
Jana
Czech-Slovak Jane.

Names connected to Jana.

The number behind Jana.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jana reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.