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Jana

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names ending with -iana/-iane, -jana/-jane, -jaana [1]

2) Female form of Jan (see also -a) [1] [2] [3] [4]

3) Swedish form of Jane 2 [1]

4) Variant form of Janna [5]

5) Short form of Johana (see Johanna) [2] [4]

6) Slavic form of Johanna [2]

Related Names

Iana ♀
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Jaana ♀
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Jaani ♀
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 Greenlandic
Jana ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Jane ♀
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Jâne ♀
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 Greenlandic
Jani ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Janie ♀
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Jany ♀ Norwegian Swedish
Yana ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Janina, Janita, Janka, Janna, Jansine, Jansý

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Januson Faroe Islands
Jönuson Iceland

Female

Janudóttir Faroe Islands
Jönudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jana
Genitive: Janas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Jana
Accusative: Janu
Dative: Janu
Genitive: Janu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jana
Genitive: Janan
Partitive: Janaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Jana
Accusative: Jönu
Dative: Jönu
Genitive: Jönu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jana
Genitive: Janas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jana
Genitive: Janas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 108 people were named Jana (percentage of first or only given name: 77 %) [8]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[9]
1434 1661 1430 1654 4 7
Denmark Denmark[10]
428
n.a.
 426
n.a.
 2
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 805
n.a.
 805 0 0
Iceland Iceland[12]
93 128
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
539
n.a.
 539
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Jana (f) Sources: [9][10][14][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Jana (f) Sources: [15]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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