girl's name

Janna

  • Origin Dutch
  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 2
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 21,792

France

#215

2025 births

Janna is a girl's name with 2 syllables. In 2025 it was given to 84 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Janna is a name of Dutch origin.
  • Peaked in 1979, when 428 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 39,470 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1912.
  • 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.

Janna over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

3,266
'10 '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Janna by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1910s 12
1920s 47
1930s 162
1940s 639
1950s 1,745
1960s 2,694
1970s 3,195
1980s 3,266
1990s 1,778
2000s 1,256
2010s 836
2020s (to 2025) 467

How popular is Janna?

In 2025, Janna was given to 84 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Janna is used

France #215 275 in 2025
Ireland #584 3 in 1984
Scotland #602 4 in 1995
Canada #883 32 in 2024
United States #2,206 84 in 2025
England & Wales #3,240 8 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Janna

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Janna also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Janna over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Janna in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Belarusian
Zhanna
Czech
Jana
Latvian
Jana
Polish
Joanna
Russian
Zhanna
Slovene
Jana
Ukrainian
Zhanna
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Jianna

Sibling names for Janna

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Janna — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Janna

How popular is the name Janna?

In 2025, Janna was given to 84 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Janna a girl's or a boy's name?

Janna is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Janna?

Janna has 2 syllables.

When was Janna most popular?

Janna peaked in 1979, when 428 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Janna a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Janna currently ranks #215 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.