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Jana

Girl's name · #1247 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Popularity over time

Few names move less than Jana — on the books since 1921, #1247 in 2025, and dependable in between. Roughly 46,000 girls have carried the name since.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 16 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#70 in Austria (2025) · #80 in Czechia (2025) · #83 in Switzerland (2025) · #87 in Spain (2024) · #90 in Slovenia (2025) · #205 in Poland (2025) · #222 in France (2025) · #256 in Belgium (2025) · #346 in Italy (2024) · #425 in Canada (2025) · #436 in Sweden (2025) · #438 in Ecuador (2025) and 9 more.

Famous Janas

• Jana Novotná — Czech tennis player (1968–2017)
• Jana Burčeska — Macedonian singer (born 1993)
• Jana Kramer — American actress and country singer (born 1983)
• Jana Pittman — Australian hurdler and bobsledder (born 1982)
• Jana Fernández — Spanish footballer (born 2002)

In stories & tradition

• Jana Hawkes — Fictional character from the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Jana Brandner — Verbotene Liebe (TV series)
• Jana^it — Roman mythology

What Janas become

Among 4,257 notable people named Jana:

Medical professionals appear 3.07× more often than among typical names — e.g. Jana Doleželová, Czech model and pharmacist (born 1981).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Jannah (#1520) and Janna (#2203), Jana would rank around #701 with about 400 births last year — the newborns split about 44/35/21 across Jana, Jannah, and Janna.

Similar names: Janna · Betsy · Janiyah · Dana · Dina · Lana

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