Given name
Jasna
“clear, bright”
Jasna is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jasna goes back to a word meaning “clear, bright.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Jasna is a romanization of Ясна. Ясна comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Italian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jasna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 5 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 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 582 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.
Jasna’s family of names
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Jasna is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Ясна. In Macedonian usage, Jasna is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Јасна.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jasna
- Jasna ŠekarićSerbian sport shooterborn 1965
- Jasna Fazlićtable tennis playerborn 1970
- Jasna DiklićBosnia-Herzegovina theatre and film actressborn 1946
- Jasna Kolar-MerdanAustrian handball playerborn 1956
- Jasna ĐuričićSerbian actressborn 1966
- Jasna BoljevićHandballerborn 1989
- Jasna PtujecCroatian handball playerborn 1959
- Jasna KoteskaMacedonian writer, philosopher and academicborn 1970
- Jasna Fritzi BauerSwiss-Chilean actressborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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