Jana

YAH-nah or JAN-ah

International feminine variation of Jan

"God is gracious"

Jana Origin and Meaning

The name Jana is a girl's name of Czech, Latvian origin.

A sweet name with many cross-cultural ties: it's an equivalent of Jane in languages including Czech, Slovak, Dutch, German, Slovene, Catalan, Estonian, and Latvian.

Jana Rank in US Top 1000

# 984 in the US

Jana Popularity

• 984 US 2018
• 1188 Nameberry 2024
• 197 Unique 2023
• 552 Future 2028
• 657 England 2021
• 95 Germany 2023
• 76 Spain 2022
• 51 Switzerland 2023
• 52 Austria 2023
• 185 Poland 2020
• 50 Estonia 2023
• 97 Slovenia 2019

20 Names Similar to Jana

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• Yana
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Famous People Named Jana

• Jana Rae Kramer American actress and country singer
• Jana Pittman Australian athlete
• Jana Novotna Czech professional tennis player
• Dragana "Jana" Todorovic Serbian Singer
• Jana Cepelova Slovakian tennis player
• Jana Maria Mashonee American singer
• Jana Nejedly Czech,Canadian tennis player
• Jana Pallaske German actress and singer of Spitting Off Tall Buildings
• Jana Hunter American singer,songwriter
• Jana Lazareva Latvian rhythmic gymnast
• Jana Carter daughter of Billy Carter; niece of Pres. Jimmy Carter; wife of commentator Van Jones (CNN commentator and attorney)
• Jana Marie Duggar eldest daughter of reality TV's Duggar family; twin of brother John,David
• Jana Defi Czech model, also goes by names "Maria Swan" & "Princessa"

Jana in Pop Culture

• Jana Cassidy character on TV's "The X,Files"
• Jana Brandner character on German soap "Verbotene Liebe"
• Jana character on TV's "Wolfblood"
• Jana Whitaker character in the Internet Girls series by Lauren Myracle
• Jana character on TV's "Containment"
• Jana Hawkes Fisher character on American soap opera The Young and the Restless
• "Jana of the Jungle " animated series and its main character