Yanna
About 56 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet a Yanna. The root is Hebrew, from a name meaning "god is gracious".
Yanna Pronunciation
Yanna is pronounced ih-AHN-nah (/ɨˈanna/).
What Yanna means
Where Yanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yanna comes from Hebrew. It grows from Yohanan, the same root that gave Joanna and Johanna, and it holds their meaning: God is gracious. Short and old.
The phrase says something about God, not about the girl who carries the name. In Polish that reads bóg jest łaskawy, a line closer to prayer than to description. A child named Yanna wears a small sentence about grace given, and the grace is not hers to earn.
Picture the name on a class register in a Polish school, one Yanna among the Zuzannas and Julias. The teacher reads it once and moves on. The form is spare next to its cousins, dropping the J and the extra syllables that Joanna keeps. What stays is the Hebrew claim underneath, god is gracious, bóg jest łaskawy.
How many people are named Yanna
1 in 402568 women in Poland is named Yanna. 56 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4987 among female names.