Johana
Fewer than 40 women in Poland carry it, so most people have never met one. A Hebrew name at root, a form of Joanna meaning "God is gracious".
Johana Pronunciation
Johana is pronounced yo-KHAH-nah (/jɔˈxana/).
What Johana means
Where Johana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Johana traces back to the Hebrew Yohanan, a name built from two parts meaning "God is gracious." The same root gives the more common Polish forms Joanna and Johanna, and the sense holds across all of them: bóg jest łaskawy. Johana keeps the older shape, one letter lighter than its cousins.
The diminutive Asia surprises people who meet it first as a nickname. In Poland, Asia is what a Joanna becomes among friends and on the class register. It sounds nothing like the formal version. That is normal for Polish diminutives.
The Hebrew original belonged to men. Yohanan became John, and Jan in Polish, and the feminine line branched off from there later. So Johana sits on the female side of a very old name whose masculine twin walks through half of Europe. Short. Two syllables in speech. The meaning it holds is the plainest kind, that God is gracious.
How many people are named Johana
1 in 578047 women in Poland is named Johana. 39 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6233 among female names.
Johana as a middle name
Johana is a first name for 39 women in Poland and a middle name for another 78, a 33/67 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 749th, between Euzebia (78) and Klarysa (78).
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#747 Cyntia78
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#748 Euzebia78
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#749 Johana78
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#750 Klarysa78
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#751 Arlena77