Juana
Fewer than 70 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet a Juana. The name means "god is gracious", and no newborn girl has been given it in years.
Juana Pronunciation
Juana is pronounced yoo-AH-nah (/juˈana/).
What Juana means
Where Juana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Juana is the Spanish form of Juan, the name Spain built from John. The trail runs back through the Greek Ioannes, the form that carried a Hebrew phrase out to the rest of Europe. That phrase means god is gracious. Spanish speakers made the name their own, and the feminine Juana settled deep into Castile.
One bearer fixed it in the history books. Juana of Castile, born in 1479, became queen and was later called Juana la Loca, Joanna the Mad. Rivals who wanted her crown pinned that label on her. The name outlived the insult.
Say it in a Polish class register and Juana stands a little apart from the local children. Her relatives sit close by all the same. Joanna and Janina come from the same Greek root, and they say the same thing she does: god is gracious.
How many people are named Juana
1 in 326722 women in Poland is named Juana. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4347 among female names.
Juana as a middle name
Juana is a first name for 69 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1456th, between Jolita (24) and Jurata (24).
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#1454 Jolantyna24
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#1455 Jolita24
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#1456 Juana24
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#1457 Jurata24
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#1458 Karmela24