Jana (given name)


Jana is the spelling of several unrelated given names.
  • In Albanian, short for Jehona which means "echo", other short names include Jona, Ana, Hona
  • In Arabic Jana, is a noun which means "to Earn" or "to Reap" and is used as a female name, but is pronounced as Janaa
  • In Brazilian Portuguese, short for Janaína, a name Amerindian, is a female name of Tupi-Guarani origin. It derives from the combination of the terms "îana", which means "river" in Tupi, and "nã", which means "mother". The name can be interpreted as "mother of the river" or "meaning "queen of the seas"
  • In Cantabria it is the feminine form of Jano, a Celtic god based on the Roman Janus
  • an old Catalan name
  • In Hebrew, Jana is a shortening of means "God is gracious"
  • In Persian its meaning is "my dearest" or "my soul"
  • the Roman goddess Diana, who was often called Jana. Jana is also the feminine form of the Roman god Janus
  • In Serbian and Croatian, the name either originates from an abbreviation of the Roman name Juliana or as a hypocorism of the female Serbian variant of the Hebrew name John

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