Djuna

JOON-a

Invented name

"born in June; young; moon"

Djuna Origin and Meaning

The name Djuna is a girl's name meaning "born in June; young; moon".

Novelist Djuna Barnes introduced this interesting and unusual name with an arty, Bohemian feel to the mix. She explained that it was invented by her father, saying it came about as a combination of her infant brother's pronunciation of the word moon as 'nuna' and a character in a book her father was reading, Prince Djalma, and so he "put the Dj onto the 'una'." Result: the silent-D pronunciation (as in Django) of JOON-a.

Fellow writer Anais Nin adopted the name for a character in her 1950 novel The Four Chambered Heart, and Woody Allen had a young girl called Djuna in his 1996 film Everyone Says I Love You — nicknamed DJ.

All in an, an attractive and intriguing possibility, that could be associated with the names Junia or Una, or to the word "moon".

Djuna Rank in US Top 1000

# 738 in the US

Popularity of the name Djuna

• 1820 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Djuna

• Djuna Barnes writer

The name Djuna in Pop Culture

• Djuna vampire in 2013 film "Kiss of the Damned"