Janna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latinate elaboration of the girl’s name bJan
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 3K(measured from records)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 519as Жанна
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 616as Жанна
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Janna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #612 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 named Жанна, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Жанна in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Zhanna in LV Latvia.
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)
Latinate elaboration of the girl’s name bJan.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #90 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 701 | #70 | Жанна | 170 |
| US United States | — | 104,565as Jeanne | 1 in 3.2K | 104K | Janna | 420 |
| UA Ukraine | #105 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 889 | listed | Жанна | 70 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #93 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 616 | 7.5K | Жанна | 56 |
| BY Belarus | #71 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 519 | 1 | Жанна | 32 |
| LV Latvia | #873 | 3,685as Žanna | 1 in 511 | 3.7K | Zhanna | 14 |
| FI Finland | #365 | 1,828 | 1 in 3K | 1.9K | Жанна | 21 |
| MD Moldova | — | 1,202 | 1 in 2.8K | 1.2K | — | 12 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Janna 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, A female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Janna är en femininform till → Jan eller → Janne, men kan också vara en kortform av → Johanna. Namnet var förr vanligare i Sydsverige.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, - (jannah): garden, paradise
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, Jannai [Jaanai, Janai]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Arabic, garden, paradise
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Joan of Arcb. 1412FRnot in their usual nameFrench folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death
- Jehanne d'Alcyb. 1865FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1865–1956)
- Zhanna Yorkinab. 1939RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut
- Zhanna Prokhorenkob. 1940RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress (1940-2011)
- Zhanna Agalakovab. 1965RUnot in their usual nameRussian journalist
- Janna Levinb. 1967USAmerican theoretical cosmologist
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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 86 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,881 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.9K | #560 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.8K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1.2K | #318 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 84 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #1,881 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #19,989 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 9 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 9 | #4,473 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Janna mean, and where does it come from?
- Latinate elaboration of the girl’s name bJan. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Janna?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒænə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Janna?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Juana and Joanne are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Jane and Janice.
- In which country does Janna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 202 thousand people named Жанна in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Janna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janna is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Janna?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,828 people named Janna, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Janna compared with other names?
- In Russia, Janna is the 90th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- Is Janna a male or female name?
- Janna 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.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jannaThe 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, “Janna” — the 90th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.