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Жанна
“Yahweh has been gracious”
Жанна (Žánna) is a feminine given name from French, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Russian, Ukrainian, and Kazakh.
Belarusian and Kazakh and Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Joanna.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Жанна goes back to Latin форм, meaning “Yahweh has been gracious.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Жанна comes from French, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Kazakh usage, Жанна developed from Jeanne.
Жанна’s family of names
In Kazakh usage, Жанна developed from the French form Jeanne. In Russian usage, Жанна has a conventional equivalent in the English form Joanna. In Kazakh usage, Жанна has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jeanne.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Жанна has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
10 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Jeannesource · French
- JoannaPolish, English
- Joanequivalent
- JohannaGerman
- Jeanequivalent
- Zhannaequivalent
- Zsannaequivalent
- Жа́ннаfeminine form
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Жанна
- Jeanna FriskeRussian actor and singer (1974-2015)
- Zhanna ProkhorenkoSoviet and Russian actress (1940-2011)
- Zhanna NemtsovaRussian and German journalistborn 1984
- Zhanna Pintusevich-BlockAthletics competitor, sprinterborn 1972
- Zhanna BichevskayaSoviet and Russian singer and folk musicianborn 1944
- Zhanna YorkinaSoviet cosmonaut1939–2015
- Zhanna AgalakovaRussian journalistborn 1965
- Zhanna KolodubUkrainian pianist and composer1930–2025
- Zhanna LitvinaBelarusian activistborn 1954
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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