Jasna

Girls' name

Clear, bright

Jasna has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Jasna, 1999

1 in 738,000

Jasna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jasna: meaning, origin, and history

Clear, bright

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jasna means

Jasna means “clear, bright”, associated with jasna.

Origin, language, and formation

Jasna is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Jasna is pronounced /jâsna/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Jasna between 1980 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1980; its best national rank was #11,002 in 1980.

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 Jasna?

Jasna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999: 1 in 738,000; 5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only: 1 in 355,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 511,873 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jasna 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 1999 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 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jasna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jasnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jasna was born before 1980 — so the typical Jasna is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Jasna 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1980 (5)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,002; 1980

Spellings of Jasna

Jasna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 33.4% against Jasna's <0.01%.

Anna33.4%914,859
Jane13.9%379,876
Dana7.1%193,555
Jenna5.4%148,587
Joanna4.1%111,761
Ana4.1%111,359
Jada2.5%67,400
Lana2.1%57,434

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.

Jasna around the world

Where Jasna 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.

France
1972–2025
#6,171
in 2025
South Australia
1949–2009
#818
in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jasna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,002; 1980
Peak year: 1980; 5 that year
First recorded: 1980
Last recorded: 1999
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jasna

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

Jasai Jashvi Jasya Jasly Jashlyn Jasee Jasyra Jastyn Jasyia Jasoni Jastin Jasaya Jashon Jasmir Jasmeh Jaspen Jasel Jasyah Jasine Jasmil Jasy Jashan Jasona Jassie

Sibling names for Jasna

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

For a sister

Charissa Sharonda Shameka Darci Tosha Candi Siobhan Starla

For a brother

Leopoldo Wilfredo Antwan Ashley Delvin Chauncey Kareem Dusty

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