Žana

given name · Latin script

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

/ʐana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Žana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 167K
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,300 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
231 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŽanaLatin(measured from records)
ЗанаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zana in US United States, SI Slovenia, XK Kosovo and 2 more.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

noble; Tuniis, Nabeul, Sousse, Kairouan, Constantine

Sources 2

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Žana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Žana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 36K—Zana12
US United States—1,9881 in 167K1.9KZana231
SI Slovenia#3891,5971 in 1.3K1.6KZana12
MY Malaysia—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 22K—Zana28
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#566≈1,200 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Žana12
AL Albania—1,1141 in 2.8K1.1K——
HR Croatia#5729541 in 4.4K954Žana37
XK Kosovo#719≈810 est.≈1 in 2.4K1.5KZana7

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Žana is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian given name6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Zana, Źana, Żana

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zana, Zānā

  • Spanish surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in El Salvador, Peru, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Zaña, Zana, Zänä, Zâna, Zanà

  • Russian given name191 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English

    Also written Жанна, Janna, Zhanna, Янна, Жана

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Зана, Zana, Zaña

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Côte d’Ivoire, United States, Belgium

    Also written Zana, Zâna, Zaña, Zanä, Zànà

20 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(measured from records)

Žana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960198020002020Žana Lelas, b. 1970Žana Jereb, b. 1984Žana Povše, b. 1984Žana Novaković, b. 1985Žana Marić, b. 1989Zana Evans, b. 2004

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBok Žana,Hi Žana, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Žana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.6K#292
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.6K#158
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20241.6K#158
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20231.6K#157
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20221.5K#160
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20211.5K#160
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20201.5K#162
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20191.4K#166
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20181.4K#167
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171.3K#172
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.3K#175
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.2K#180

Reference works 2

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Žana?
In the etymology graph, Janet, Jo and Jenny are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Žana?
A machine transcription gives /ʐana/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Žana a male or female name?
Žana 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.
In which country does Žana have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Žana in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zana.
Where is Žana most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Žana is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Žana?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,988 people named Žana in 2020, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
How common is Žana compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Žana is the 389th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Žana” — the 389th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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