Zana

Where Zana comes from

Zana hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Zana Marjanović born
    Bosnian actress
  3. 1984
    Zana Ramadani born
    politician and activist from Germany
  4. 1994
    Peak, #802
    252 babies named Zana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,850.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Zana Marjanović · Bosnian actress, born 1983
  • Zana Ramadani · politician and activist from Germany, born 1984
  • Zana Briski · British photographer and filmmaker, born 1966
  • Zana Krasniqi · Kosovar beauty pageant contestant, born 1988
  • Zana Nimani · Yugoslav singer, born 1961

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.