MEANING & HISTORY
What does Janna mean?
The English dictionary records Janna as a modern variant of Jane. That route places it within the John family and its older Hebrew grace association.
This particular account should not be conflated with unrelated words in other languages that happen to look similar in Latin letters. Janna, Jana and Hannah cannot be treated as interchangeable solely on sound. The English name formation is documented; deciding whether it describes a specific family’s choice would require that family’s own naming history.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
A female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Janna
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Janna Dominguez
Filipino actress
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Janna Cachola
actor
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Janna Dominguez, Janna Cachola
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Janna in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Janna
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Anna♀Grace or favour
- Hanna♀Grace; a form of Hannah
- Jana♀God is gracious; Czech John-family form
- Janina♀God is gracious; a John-family feminine form
- Joanna♀God is gracious
- Ayanna♀Name listed as beautiful flower in a 1970 collection
- Donna♀Lady or woman, from Italian
- Gianna♀God is gracious; Giovanna or Ioanna form
What rhymes with Janna?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Janna further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q20000584 — Janna (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Janna Dominguez (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q20000584 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Janna Cachola (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q20000584 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Janna (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — jane (opens in a new tab)
Consulted editorial entry, not user submissions: Jane as feminine John-family name.
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources — John (opens in a new tab)
Hebrew graced by God.