Žanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sievietes vārds
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Žanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 511(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 6.2K
- SESweden1 in 32K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 511 (inferred from the name graph)
3,685 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zanna in US United States, SE Sweden, FI Finland.
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)
Sievietes vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Žanna 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #378 | 3,685 | 1 in 511 | 3.7K | Žanna | 15 |
| US United States | — | 646 | 1 in 515K | 641 | Zanna | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 323 | 1 in 32K | 323 | Zanna | 15 |
| EE Estonia | #524 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 10 | Žanna | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 70 | 1 in 247K | 70 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | 1 in 174K | 112 | Zanna | 8 |
| IS Iceland | — | 4 | 1 in 88K | 4 | — | — |
3,685 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zhanna Yorkinab. 1939RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut
- Zhanna Prokhorenkob. 1940RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress (1940-2011)
- Zhanna Bolotovab. 1941RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress
- Zhanna Bichevskayab. 1944RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian singer and folk musician
- Zhanna Gromovab. 1949RUnot in their usual namefigure skating coach
- Zhanna Agalakovab. 1965RUnot in their usual nameRussian journalist
- Zhanna Pintusevich-Blockb. 1972UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian-Israeli sprinter
- Jeanna Friskeb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor and singer (1974-2015)
- Zhanna Badoevab. 1976ITnot in their usual nameUkrainian, later Russian TV presenter
- Zhanna Nemtsovab. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian and German journalist
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(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3.7K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3.7K | #146 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 814 | #189 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 does the name Žanna mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
- Is Žanna a male or female name?
- Žanna 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 are other forms of the name Žanna?
- In the etymology graph, Jane, Janet and Janice are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Žanna have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Žanna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled žanna.
- Where is Žanna most common?
- Žanna is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 511 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Žanna?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 3,685 people named Žanna, about 1 in 511 residents.
- How common is Žanna compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Žanna is the 378th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BEannaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Žanna” — the 378th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.