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Jaana

#11,311 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Jaana has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #11,311 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Jaana, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jaana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaana: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaana means

Jaana has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Jaana

A separate documented entry treats Jaana as a short form of Marjaana. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Jaana as a feminine form of Jaan. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaana is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johanna and Marjaana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Jaana is pronounced /ˈjɑːnɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 girls were recorded with the name Jaana between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2007; its best national rank was #9,202 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,081 in 2020 to #11,311 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jaana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,311
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaana was born before 2013 — so the typical Jaana is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
110
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Jaana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,371
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,770
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 2007 (13)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,202
2007

Spellings of Jaana

Jaana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 20.6% against Jaana's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jaana around the world

Where Jaana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    2021–2021
    #5,889
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1974–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jaana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,311
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,770
Best rank ever
#9,202
2007
Peak year
2007
13 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jaana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JaasiaJaanaiDhanaYvanaTuanaLoanaIoanaJaanviAzanaImanaAianaIsanaHasanaIolanaUlianaAfsanaAdanaDhyanaLivanaAidanaNianaTaianaLilanaSerana

Sibling names for Jaana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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