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.

# 984 in the US

Jana Rank in US Top 1000

Jana Popularity

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

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