Given name · also Russian
Zhanna
Zhanna is a feminine given name from Russian, ultimately from Ukrainian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Zhanna comes from Russian, and ultimately from Ukrainian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zhanna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 137
- 0 boys · 137 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,923 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −23%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,923 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,483 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.
Zhanna’s family of names
In English usage, Zhanna shares an earlier linguistic root with Joanna. In English usage, Zhanna shares an earlier linguistic root with Johanna.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zhanna
- 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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