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Ивана
“God is gracious”
Ивана (Ivana) is a feminine given name from Serbo-Croatian. It is used in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Pannonian Rusyn, and Serbo-Croatian.
Bulgarian and Macedonian and Russian and Serbo-Croatian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Ivana.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ивана is Ivana written in Cyrillic. In Slavic use, Ivana carries the interpretation “God is gracious.” Ivana is a feminine form of Ivan. In Slavic use, Ivan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Serbo-Croatian Ивана//Ivana, built from Serbo-Croatian Иван//Ivan + -а//-a.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ивана’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Ивана has a diminutive in Ина. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Ивана shares an earlier linguistic root with Йована. In Bulgarian usage, Ивана has a conventional equivalent in the German form Johanna.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ивана has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Serbo-Croatian roots to each of them.
Serbo-Croatianwhere Ивана comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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