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Janna - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Janna

[ 2 syll. jan-na, ja-nna ] The girl name Janna is pronounced JHAENah KEY. Janna's origin is Hebrew, and its use, English, Dutch, German, and Scandinavian. Janna is the feminine equivalent of the English, Czech, Dutch, German, Polish, Scandinavian, and Belgian Jan. Forms of the name include the Czech, Dutch, English, German, Polish, Slavic, and Latvian Jana and the English Jannah.

In addition, Janna is a Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian form of the English Jane.

Janna is also a form of the English Jan. Janna is also a Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian pet form of the Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, and Scandinavian Johanna. The pet forms Janne (Finnish, German, and Scandinavian), Janneke (Dutch), Jannicke (Scandinavian), Jannike (Scandinavian), Jantine (Dutch), and Jantje (Dutch, Frisian, and German) are other variants of Janna.

Janna is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 1979, 0.025% of baby girls were named Janna. It had a ranking of #471 then. The baby name has fallen out of favor since then, and is used only on an infrequent scale now. Within the family of girl names directly related to Janna, the English Jane was the most widely used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Janna include the Czech, Dutch, English, German, Polish, Slavic, and Latvian Jana, the English Jannah, the English Dzana, the English Jacqueine, the Iranian Jahan, the English Jahna, the English Jaimie, the English and Polish Jama, the English Jamay, the English Jame, the English Jamey, the English Jami, the English Jamie, the English Jamii, the English Jammie, the English Jamy, the English Jamye, the English Janae, the Arabic Janan, and the English Janay.

KEY: Pronunciation for Janna: JH as in "gee (JH.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"


 
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