Janeta
A Hebrew name meaning "god is gracious", a rarer cousin of the far more common Janina. Only about 96 women in Poland carry it, and none have been given it in years, so most Poles have never met one.
Janeta Pronunciation
Janeta is pronounced yah-NE-tah (/jaˈnɛta/).
What Janeta means
Where Janeta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Janeta traces back to the Hebrew name Yohanan, which means "God is gracious" (in Polish, bóg jest łaskawy). The same root gave Polish its Jan and the wide family that grew around it. Janeta sits among them as a feminine form, a close cousin to Janina, the variant that stayed far more common on Polish records.
On a class register the name shortens fast. Janka does the everyday work, the form a teacher reads out and friends keep for years.
The meaning has stayed literal. It reports grace as a gift, and no later gloss about beauty or virtue was ever stitched onto it. That plainness keeps Janeta tied to Jan, to Janina, and to the older Yohanan standing behind all of them.
How many people are named Janeta
1 in 234832 women in Poland is named Janeta. 96 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3540 among female names.
Janeta as a middle name
Janeta is a first name for 96 women in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1308th, between Ilse (29) and Janette (29).
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#1306 Huyen29
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#1307 Ilse29
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#1308 Janeta29
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#1309 Janette29
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#1310 Jozefina29