Janna
Fewer than 80 women in Poland carry this name, so meeting one would stick with you. It comes from Hebrew, with the sense "god is gracious", and today it goes only to girls.
Janna Pronunciation
Janna is pronounced YAHN-nah (/ˈjanna/).
What Janna means
Where Janna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Janna reaches back to the Hebrew name Yohanan, which meant "God is gracious." That older form moved into Greek as Ioannes, then into Latin, and it seeded a wide family of names across Europe. The masculine line gave John and the Polish Jan. On the feminine side stand Joanna and Jana, and Janna sits right beside them, a shorter cousin holding the same root.
The meaning is a small statement of faith. To carry Janna is to carry the sentence "God is gracious," folded down into two syllables and a doubled n. The grace in the name belongs to God, and the person named becomes the place where that claim is spoken.
Open a Polish class register and Janna lands near Jana and Joanna, close enough to be mistaken for either. The three share one Hebrew ancestor and one meaning. Its name-day tends to follow the calendar of Joanna. Whatever else shifts, the core stays fixed: Yohanan, and the old promise that God is gracious.
How many people are named Janna
1 in 289024 women in Poland is named Janna. 78 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4029 among female names.
Janna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Janna is most popular
Janna is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 1876% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born+1876%
Janna as a middle name
Janna is a first name for 78 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2288th, between Jahan (11) and Jeanine (11).
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#2286 Isadora11
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#2287 Jahan11
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#2288 Janna11
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#2289 Jeanine11
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#2290 Jowanka11