Entry № 4801 · Yoruba origin

Janaina Janaina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zhah-nah-EE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Sea goddess"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "sea goddess".

Janaína is the Brazilian Portuguese form of the Yoruba sea goddess Yemanjá (Iemanjá) — venerated in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. February 2nd is her annual festival on the beach in Bahia.

Janaina is widely used in Brazil.

Sea goddess. The Brazilian Yemanjá.

The name in its native script.

Janaina
Transliteration
Janaina
Pronunciation
/ ʒəˈnaɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Janaina stands.

Janaina 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.

Janainas before her.

Real people
Janaina Tschäpe
German-Brazilian artist.
born 1973
In fiction
Janaína
Brazilian Yemanjá.
Candomblé tradition

Names connected to Janaina.

The number behind Janaina.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Janaina reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.