Żanet
Only about 40 women in Poland carry Żanet, so most people here have never met one. Latin at root, it means "god is gracious", the same sense behind the more common Żaneta.
Żanet Pronunciation
Żanet is pronounced ZHAH-net (/ˈʐanɛt/).
What Żanet means
Where Żanet comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Żanet reached Polish through Latin, where the name Iohannes held a Hebrew phrase meaning god is gracious. French speakers softened Iohannes into Jean, then shaped the feminine Jeanne. A small affectionate form, Jeannette, travelled outward until Polish spelling caught it as Żanet. The variant żaneta sits right beside it.
Latin did not invent the meaning. It carried the sense from Hebrew and passed it on. The English John, the Italian Giovanni, and the Polish Jan all descend from that same Latin Iohannes. Żanet keeps the meaning while wearing a French coat and a Polish spelling.
On a class register, Żanet and Żaneta can appear a line apart, two spellings of one name. A teacher reads both aloud and lands on the same person. The sense stays put: god is gracious.
How many people are named Żanet
1 in 549850 women in Poland is named Żanet. 41 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6091 among female names.
Żanet as a middle name
Żanet is a first name for 41 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2045th, between Zenaida (14) and Adrienne (13).
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#2043 Zaneta14
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#2044 Zenaida14
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#2045 Żanet14
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#2046 Adrienne13
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#2047 Aliza13