Lana (given name)
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| Pronunciation | Lah-na, Lay-nah, law-na, lar-na |
| Gender | Female |
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| Word/name | Gaelic, Hebrew, German |
| Meaning | little Rock, fair one, to be gentle, soft, light, awakening, woolly |
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Lana is a female given name and surname. Though its origin is disputed, it can be found in many languages, mostly English speaking countries and Russia,[1] but also Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Ukraine and Belarus.[2] It is also an abbreviated form of the name Svetlana used in Russian, Czech and Bulgarian and Alana in English.[3]
The name Lana is also a very common Kurdish name for girls meaning Nest or Home.
In an independent name survey Lana appears in 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 402. The last time Lana appeared among the most common names was in 1940 (Based on 128 years of name history.)
This name could come from the Gaelic ailin, meaning little rock.the Irish Gaelic use of this name probably derives from the Gaelic phrase a leanbh, which was used to call a child. Lana is considered a derivative of the Greek name Helen, meaning "shining light" as it has the same translation. In German its meaning is Precious & the name derives from an Ancient Germanic name Adal.
In Hawaiian, Lana means "afloat; calm as still waters". In Mexico it is a slang word for money. The name also resembles the romantic term for wool: "laine". In Kurdish it is a female name which means "nest" or "the house of Lion".
Variations
Variations of the name include:
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Usage of name
In television and film
- Lana Turner (1921–1995) American actress
- Lana Wood, Actress best known for her role as 'Plenty O'Toole' in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever
- Lana Clarkson (1962–2003), American actress and fashion model
- Lana Wachowski, a Polish American director
- Lana Parrilla, an American actress
Fictional characters
- Lana Lang, fictional character from DC Comics Superman & Character in the television series Smallville played by Kristin Kreuk
- Lana Jacobs, character from Shortland Street Played by Brook Williams
- Lana Winters, character from American Horror Story: Asylum Played by Sarah Paulson
- Lana Kane, character from Archer Played by Aisha Tyler
- Lana Skye, character from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
In music
- Lana Del Rey, American singer
- Lana Jurčević, Croatian singer
- Lana Trotovšek, Slovenian violinist
- Lana Wolf, Dutch singer
- "Beautiful Lana", sung by Roy Orbison
- "Lana", sung by The Beach Boys
In literature
- Llana of Gathol, four part series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Wild Energy. Lana, a 2006 Ukrainian fantasy novel
Other
Geography
- Northern Thailand
- Lanna Kingdom
- Lana Island
- Albania
- Lana River, Tirana
- Italy
- Spain
- Lana, Navarre
- Larna Asturias
- Hawaii
- Lānaʻi the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands, also known as the Pineapple Island
- United Kingdom
- Africa
- Sweden
- Länna, Uppsala
Language
Botanical
Companies
- Lanner Inc.
- Lanner Group Ltd
- LANA (latency-associated nuclear antigen)