Jana
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Jana
A sweet name with many cross-cultural ties: it's an equivalent of Jane in languages including Czech, Slovak, Dutch, German, Slovene, Catalan, Estonian, and Latvian.
Jana is also given to boys.
Pronounced YAH-nah.
As of October 2026, Jana ranked #1247 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #226 in 1961.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,110 | 229 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,009 | 266 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #916 | 301 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #916 | 292 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #981 | 269 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #1,066 | 237 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #1,062 | 234 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #1,091 | 227 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #1,140 | 214 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,201 | 200 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #1,335 | 171 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #1,247 | 181 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Jana on lists
Famous Janas
- Jana Rae KramerGirl
American actress and country singer
- Jana PittmanGirl
Australian athlete
- Jana NovotnaGirl
Czech professional tennis player
- Dragana "Jana" TodorovicGirl
Serbian Singer
- Jana CepelovaGirl
Slovakian tennis player
- Jana Maria MashoneeGirl
American singer
- Jana NejedlyGirl
Czech,Canadian tennis player
- Jana PallaskeGirl
German actress and singer of Spitting Off Tall Buildings
- Jana HunterGirl
American singer,songwriter
- Jana LazarevaGirl
Latvian rhythmic gymnast
- Jana CarterGirl
daughter of Billy Carter; niece of Pres. Jimmy Carter; wife of commentator Van Jones (CNN commentator and attorney)
- Jana Marie DuggarGirl
eldest daughter of reality TV's Duggar family; twin of brother John,David
- Jana DefiGirl
Czech model, also goes by names "Maria Swan" & "Princessa"
- JaNa CraigGirl
Contestant and third-pace finisher on season 6 of Love Island USA
Jana in pop culture
- Jana CassidyGirl
character on TV's "The X,Files"
- Jana BrandnerGirl
character on German soap "Verbotene Liebe"
- JanaGirl
character on TV's "Wolfblood"
- Jana WhitakerGirl
character in the Internet Girls series by Lauren Myracle
- JanaGirl
character on TV's "Containment"
- Jana Hawkes FisherGirl
character on American soap opera The Young and the Restless
- "Jana of the JungleGirl
" animated series and its main character