Given name
Jaana
Jaana is a feminine given name. It is used in Finnish and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Jaana is a short form of MARJAANA. In Estonian usage, Jaana is a feminine form of Jaan.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jaana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 110
- 0 boys · 110 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,315 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,315 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 264 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jaana’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Jaana is a short form of MARJAANA. In Estonian usage, Jaana is a feminine form of Jaan. In Estonian usage, Jaana has a related form in Jana.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
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.
People named Jaana
- Jaana PelkonenFinnish television host and politicianborn 1977
- Jaana Savolainenformer Finnish cross-country skierborn 1964
- Jaana SundbergFinnish judokaborn 1983
- Jaana RonkainenFinnish judokaborn 1965
- Jaana Strandmanborn 1972
- Jaana LyytikäinenFinnish footballerborn 1982
- Jaana SaarinenFinnish actressborn 1955
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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