Janna

Where Janna comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Janna.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Janna through the years
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,634 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Janna Levin born
    American theoretical cosmologist
  3. 1979
    Peak, #469
    428 babies named Janna, the most in any year.
  4. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #955.
  5. 2006
    Janna Jihad born
    Palestinian journalist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.
Namesakes
  • Janna Levin · American theoretical cosmologist, born 1967
  • Janna Jihad · Palestinian journalist, born 2006
  • Janna van Kooten · Dutch swimmer, born 2004
  • Janna Gur · Israeli linguist and journalist, born 1958
  • Janna · Finnish singer, songwriter and pianist, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.