Yana

Where Yana comes from

Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).
— Wiktionary's entry for Yana
  • Slavic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1955
    First appearance
    #4,740 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Peak, #1,738
    37 babies named Yana — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,150.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
Namesakes

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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.