Jordana
In Poland it barely registers: around 31 women carry it, and no girls have been given it in years. Hebrew at root, from a word meaning "flowing down", the sense of water running downhill.
Jordana Pronunciation
Jordana is pronounced yor-DAH-nah (/jɔrˈdana/).
What Jordana means
Where Jordana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jordana comes from Hebrew, a feminine form built on the name of the Jordan River. That river name traces to the root yarad, meaning "to go down." The Jordan descends from northern heights toward the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the surface of the earth. The short meaning follows the water. Descending, flowing down.
The name spread through English more than through Hebrew directly, and it carries an English association today. Most people meet it first through Jordan, its common relative across genders. Jordana is the feminine branch of that family. A variant, Yordana, holds the older consonant nearer the front of the mouth.
On a Polish class register, Jordana sits among names with plainer roots, and a teacher reading the list might pause on it. The pause is fair. Behind the name stands a river that has run downhill for as long as anyone has named it. Descending, flowing down.
When Jordana celebrates name day
Jordana appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 13 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Jordana
1 in 727220 women in Poland is named Jordana. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7306 among female names.
Jordana as a middle name
Jordana is a first name for 31 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2577th, between Jing (9) and Josephin (9).
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#2575 Jaryna9
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#2576 Jing9
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#2577 Jordana9
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#2578 Josephin9
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#2579 Juanita9