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Jovana Jovana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOH-vah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Joan"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Serbian)

A name that means "joan".

Jovana is from the Serbian Jovana (Јована) — feminine of Jovan (Serbian for John) — from the Hebrew Yochanan (Yahweh is gracious). Jovana is one of the Serbian + Macedonian feminine names — consistently in the top 10 Serbian girls' names.

Joan.

The name in its native script.

Јована
Transliteration
Jovana
Pronunciation
/ ˈjoʊ.və.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jovana stands.

Jovana 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.

Jovanas before her.

Real people
Jovana Brakočević
Serbian Olympic silver volleyball player.
born 1988
In fiction
Jovana
Serbian Joan.

Names connected to Jovana.

The number behind Jovana.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jovana reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.