Juana

Where Juana comes from

From Spanish Juana, from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
— Wiktionary's entry for Juana
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1479
    Juana I of Castile born
    Queen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1892
    Juana de Ibarbourou born
    Uruguayan writer
  4. 1928
    Peak, #485
    200 babies named Juana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #732.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Juana I of Castile · Queen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516, 1479–1555
  • Juana de Ibarbourou · Uruguayan writer, 1892–1979
  • Juana Enríquez de Mendoza y Fernández de Córdoba · Aragonese queen, 1425–1468
  • Juana Azurduy de Padilla · argentine/bolivian military leader, 1780–1862
  • Juana Manuela Gorriti · Argentine writer, 1818–1892

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.