Zhanetta
A Russian-tinted spelling of Żaneta, Greek at root, from "god is gracious". Fewer than 30 Polish women carry it and no girls have been given it in years, so most Poles have never met one.
Zhanetta Pronunciation
Zhanetta is pronounced skhah-NET-tah (/sxaˈnɛtta/).
What Zhanetta means
Where Zhanetta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zhanetta is the Russian shape of a name that traveled a long road. The root is Greek. Behind it stands Ioannes, and behind that the meaning "god is gracious." French turned the same root into Jeanne and its little form Jeannette, and Russian ears softened that ending into Zhanetta.
In Poland the name arrives mostly as its variant, żaneta. A teacher reading a class register might pause at the spelling before saying it right. The two forms share one root and one meaning, so a Żaneta and a Zhanetta are cousins on paper.
The sense "god is gracious" belongs to the oldest layer, not to a later gloss. It sits in the Hebrew Yohanan that Greek carried west. A woman named Zhanetta holds that old sentence whether or not she knows it. Under the Russian spelling sits the Greek Ioannes and its "god is gracious."
How many people are named Zhanetta
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Zhanetta. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7768 among female names.