Jana (given name)
| Jana |
| Gender |
Female |
| Origin |
| Word/Name |
various unrelated |
| Meaning |
various |
Jana is the spelling of several unrelated given names.
- a Slavic short-form for Johanna.
- the Roman goddess Diana, who was often called Jana
- In India however, Jana is a shortform for the Hindu god Janarthanan.
- In Arabic it's a noun which means Paradise or Garden, used as a female name, but is pronounced as Jannah
Johanna
Other short forms of Johanna include Jana (Serbian Latin) Јана (Serbian Cyrillic)(Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro), Jaina, Janna, Janne, Jane, Janet, Janina (Polish), Janita, Jantina, Janka (Bulgarian, Hungarian), Janica, Jaana (Finnish), Janine, Jeanne, Jonna (Danish), Yana., Janarthanan(Tamil)
People identified as Jana
- Jana (born 1974), Serbian singer
- Jana Duggar (born 1990), reality TV star
- Jana Jordan (born 1986), American pornographic actress and model
- Jana Mashonee, Native American singer
- Jana Nejedly (born 1974), Canadian tennis player but she was born in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic
- Jana Novotná (born 1968), Czech former tennis player
- Jana Pallaske (born 1979), German actress
- Jana Pittman (born 1982), Australian athlete
- Jana Tucholke (born 1981), German former discus thrower
- Jana Hunter, musician
- Jana Goyvaerts, Belgian actress
- Jana Hawkes Fisher, a character on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
Fictional Janas
See also