Given name & surname
Gana
“lady of the gardens”
Gana is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “lady of the gardens.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “lady of the gardens.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 0 boys · 34 girls
- Most popular year
- 1965
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 278 as a first name in 2020; 494 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gana’s family of names
Gana has a related form in Ganna. Gana has a related form in Ganah. Gana has a related form in Ganet.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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