Jana is a girl's name of German origin. Its meaning is not recorded in the standard references we check — we would rather tell you that plainly than guess. In 2024 it was given to 171 girls in the United States.
Jana belongs to the German tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess. It travels in a few spellings: Jano.
In the United States, Jana first appears in Social Security records in 1921. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #226 in 1961, and in 2024 171 babies received the name — 46,004 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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The meaning of Jana is not recorded in the standard references we check. Rather than repeat an unsourced claim, we leave it open — its German origin is documented, but its exact meaning is not.
Jana is a girl name. In 2024, 171 babies received the name in the US.
Jana comes from the German tradition. It is also spelled Jano.
Jana first appears in US records in 1921. Its best-ever ranking was #226 in 1961, and 171 babies were given the name in 2024.
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