Zhanneta
Fewer than two dozen women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A Russian-inflected form with Hebrew roots, meaning "god is gracious".
Zhanneta Pronunciation
Zhanneta is pronounced skhahn-NE-tah (/sxanˈnɛta/).
What Zhanneta means
Where Zhanneta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zhanneta travels into Russian from Hebrew. The root is Yohanan, an old Hebrew name meaning "God is gracious." Latin reshaped it into Johannes, French into Jeanne, the feminine of Jean. Russian took the French form and wrote it Жаннета.
In Russia the name kept a foreign accent. It held a French colour, audible in the doubled n and the soft final vowel. It never blended into the plain Russian roll of names. That was part of the appeal.
The meaning stayed fixed across every border the name crossed. Yohanan carried it in Hebrew, Jean and Jeanne in French. On a Polish urząd form Zhanneta looks foreign, and it is. The sense underneath is older than the French spelling. God is gracious.
How many people are named Zhanneta
1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Zhanneta. 24 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8934 among female names.