How popular is the name Jana?

Jana ranks 477th among girls' names in US records, with 62,055 births since 1912. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,212.

Is Jana a unisex name?

No. Jana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1961, when 1,767 children were given the name. It has been in use for 113 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#477 of girl names

Pronounced JH AE1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Jana is a girls' name, and first appears in 1912. It has been given to 62,055 children — the 477th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1961, when 1,767 children were given it.

1961Girls: 1,767Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Jana?: Jana ranks 477th among girls' names in US records, with 62,055 births since 1912. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,212.
Is Jana a unisex name?: No. Jana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Jana most popular?: 1961, when 1,767 children were given the name. It has been in use for 113 years and is still recorded as of 2024.