Jana

given name · Czech · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jana is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Kiswahili: 'yesterday'; also Eastern European: 'God's gracious gift'.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 20◐
  • FIFinland1 in 50
  • PLPoland1 in 95

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.6M ●

across 13 countries

#178 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
431 ●

3.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 20 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JanaLatin · Czech●2.5M records
ЯнаCyrillic · Russian●2.5M records
ΙωανναGreek · Greek●8K records
יוהנהHebrew · Hebrew●3.9K records
ยานาThai · Thai●834 records
ᲯანაGeorgian · Georgian●124 records
야나Hangul · Korean●77 records
ՅանաArmenian · Armenian●2 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Johanna in NL Netherlands, AT Austria, SE Sweden and 7 more, Яна in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Yana in IN India, BR Brazil, BG Bulgaria and Joanna in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Kiswahili: 'yesterday'; also Eastern European: 'God's gracious gift'

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#772,406,458939K rec.—#51Яна179
UA Ukraine#71838,403835K rec.—listedЯна113
CZ Czechia#4529,888△28K rec.1 in 20530KJana192
PL Poland#22401,861△77K rec.1 in 95402KJoanna229
DE Germany#84280,103245K rec.—5Jana252
BR Brazil—238,493△189 rec.1 in 888270KYana24
FI Finland#873111,505△2.3K rec.1 in 50151KJana79
US United States#375104,581842K rec.1 in 3.2K105KJana431
AT Austria#3184,8288K rec.—16KJohanna135
SE Sweden#13073,968△13K rec.1 in 13874KJohanna107
GB United Kingdom#41066,18653K rec.—15Johanna155
TR Türkiye—52,7117.3K rec.——Яна19

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Czech2.5M63%
  • German509K13%
  • English452K11%
  • Spanish86K2%
  • Russian46K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech2,478,16963%
German508,66713%
English451,76211%
Spanish86,0972%
Russian46,0131%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jana is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.4M records spelled Jana110 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Philippines

    Languages: English, Hindi, Bangla

    Also written June, জানা, Junu, Juene, Zuna

  • a separate given name382K records spelled Jana10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Jaña, Janá, Jānā, Jána, Jān̨a

  • Spanish given name184K records spelled Jana95 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Gianna, Jaña, Yana, Janá, Jänä

  • Sinhala given name13K records spelled Jana10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written June, Jan, Jun, Jin, Ján

  • Swahili given name8.0K records spelled Jana9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Gianna, Jaña, Jänä, Jānā

  • Latvian given name7.0K records spelled Jana10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, Lithuania, United Kingdom

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Yana, Jāna, Jaņa, Gianna, Jāņa

  • Vietnamese given name4.3K records spelled Jana4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Vietnam, Switzerland

    Also written Gianna, Jána, Jăñà

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Unusual feminine form of John; used in the Lowther family of Co. Meath.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In Swedish, Jana är en femininform till → Jan och en kortform till → Johanna. Jfr även → Jaana.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Balarama (N); Hanuman (N); Siva (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • » Kumari (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K194019601980200020201.5K · 1961

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Jana in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1921–2025
Yearrecords
19215
19226
19237
19247
19258
19266
19276
192811
19298
193110
193224
19336
193416
193521
193631
193740
193841
193934
194043
194166
1942141
1943154
1944131
1945140
1946171
1947230
1948288
1949297
1950307
1951371
1952500
1953655
1954846
1955868
1956841
1957848
1958910
1959938
1960980
19611,456
19621,313
19631,311
19641,227
19651,094
19661,138
19671,074
19681,011
19691,008
19701,025
1971964
1972863
1973827
1974801
1975821
1976798
1977949
1978959
19791,161
19801,046
1981939
1982843
1983741
1984757
1985696
1986677
1987582
1988505
1989481
1990433
1991383
1992340
1993305
1994260
1995271
1996234
1997231
1998248
1999247
2000229
2001235
2002254
2003218
2004250
2005252
2006245
2007247
2008226
2009239
2010242
2011213
2012238
2013244
2014229
2015266
2016301
2017292
2018269
2019237
2020234
2021228
2022214
2023200
2024171
2025181

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 104 years between 1921–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Yang Chuan-kwang, b. 1933Jana Novotná, b. 1968Liu Yang, b. 1978Jana Cova, b. 1980Jane Darling, b. 1980Yana Klochkova, b. 1982Jana Kramer, b. 1983Yang Yang, b. 1991Jana Burčeska, b. 1993Jerry Heil, b. 1995
  • Yang Chuan-kwangb. 1933TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese decathlete (1933–2007)
  • Jana Novotnáb. 1968CZCzech tennis player (1968–2017)
  • Liu Yangb. 1978CNnot in their usual nameChinese astronaut
  • Jana Covab. 1980CZCzech pornographic actress
  • Jane Darlingb. 1980CZnot in their usual nameCzech pornographic actress
  • Yana Klochkovab. 1982UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian swimmer
  • Jana Kramerb. 1983USAmerican singer and actress
  • Yang Yangb. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
  • Jana Burčeskab. 1993MKMacedonian singer
  • Jerry Heilb. 1995UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian singer-songwriter and YouTuber

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 112 sources across 55 countries.

Official registers attesting Jana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—530K#4
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—436K#54
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—265K#4
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202043K#999
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11K#498
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—10K#271
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20247.5K#52
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20245K#247
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot20234.8K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names20234.8K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—4.4K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—4.4K#118

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,143 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jana?
We estimate roughly 1.6 million people bear Jana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Jana have the most bearers?
Jana is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled яна.
Where is Jana most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jana is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 20 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Jana compared with other names?
In Russia, Jana is the 77th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Jana a male or female name?
Jana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jana mean?
Recorded meaning: Kiswahili: 'yesterday'; also Eastern European: 'God's gracious gift'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jana” — the 77th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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