Jana (given name)

Jana is the spelling of several unrelated given names.

• In Albanian, short for Jehona which means "echo", other short names include Jona, Ana, Hona
• In Arabic Jana, is a noun which means "to Earn" or "to Reap" (Essentially making the name the Arabic equivalent of the name Theresa) and is used as a female name, but is pronounced as Janaa
• In Brazilian Portuguese, short for Janaína, a name Amerindian, is a female name of Tupi-Guarani origin. It derives from the combination of the terms "îana", which means "river" in Tupi, and "nã", which means "mother". The name can be interpreted as "mother of the river" or "meaning "queen of the seas"^[1]
• In Cantabria it is the feminine form of Jano, a Celtic god based on the Roman Janus (see also xana of Asturias)
• an old Catalan name

• In Hebrew (Hebrew: חַנָּה), Jana is a shortening of means "God is gracious"^[2]
• In Persian (Persian: جانا) its meaning is "my dearest" or "my soul"
• the Roman goddess Diana, who was often called Jana. Jana is also the feminine form of the Roman god Janus
• In Serbian and Croatian (Serbian: Јана, romanized: Jana), the name either originates from an abbreviation of the Roman name Juliana or as a hypocorism of the female Serbian variant of the Hebrew name John (Serbian: Јована, romanized: Jovana)^[3][4]