Jana

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names ending in -iana, -jana, -jaana ^[1]

2) Female form of Jan ^[1]

3) Swedish form of Jane ^[1]

4) Variant form of Janna ^[2]

Related Names

See Jane

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Jana
Accusative:	Janu
Dative:	Janu
Genitive:	Janu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1787 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		705	894	3	5
Denmark[4]		213	n.a.	3	n.a
Norway[5]		209	265	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	423	n.a	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][4][5][6]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi