Entry № 7689 · Hebrew origin

Oana Oana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Joanna"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Romanian)

A name that means "joanna".

Oana is from the Romanian Oana — Romanian rendition of Joanna / Ioana — from the Hebrew Yochanan (Yahweh is gracious). Oana is one of the Romanian feminine names.

Joanna (Romanian-Hebrew). European Liberal politician.

The name in its native script.

Oana
Transliteration
Oana
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oana stands.

Oana 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.

Oanas before her.

Real people
Oana Pellea
Romanian actress + Bulandra Theatre Bucharest.
born 1962
In fiction
Oana
Romanian Joanna.

Names connected to Oana.

The number behind Oana.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Oana reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.