Janna
Feminine · “God is gracious”
Janna is a feminine of John — God is gracious — and in Arabic janna is the garden, the Qur'anic paradise.
How old is the name Janna?
Janna first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Janna alive today was born around 1978, making them about 47 years old. About 15,000 people named Janna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Janna most popular?
Janna peaked in 1979, reaching #469 nationally. Today it ranks #2194, 1,725 places below that high. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yochanan to Janna
The story of Janna
The Qur'an calls paradise jannah, a garden, from a root meaning to cover or conceal — the same root gives jinn, the hidden ones. Separately, Dutch and Scandinavian naming produced Janna as a feminine of Jan. Both routes reach American records, where the name is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
God is gracious; garden, paradise
Two unrelated names. As a European feminine of John, from the Hebrew Yochanan, 'the Lord is gracious'. As Arabic, jannah, 'garden' — the word the Qur'an uses for paradise, from a root meaning 'to conceal', since a garden hides what is inside it. Both are genuine.
How the name formed
- Yochanan
- Jan
- Janna
Related forms: Janna · جنة · Jana
Pronouncing Janna
JAN-uh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic jannah is JAN-nah with a doubled n.
Nicknames for Janna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most girls named
- 1980366 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #469reached in 1979
- Change vs 2023
- +20.0%84 in 2025, from 70
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Janna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Janna in Dutch — same name
- جنة in Arabic — related form
- Jana in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Texas.
Jannas among us
people named Janna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 19,134 born in 2025 was named Janna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Janna
- #2194
- Janna on the 2025 chart
- #576
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Janna went to 84 girls in 2025, but Jana, Jannah and Jaana and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 418, which makes it the 576th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,618 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,845 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 19,134 for Janna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Maura test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Janna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maura climbed just as high around 1964, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maura's path sketches the road Janna is walking now.
Janna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Janna is headed
Janna should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Janna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Janna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the Arabic for paradise and for jinn share a root meaning 'hidden' is a first-rate fact.
- Jan and Anna are two short forms, both with large records.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The two origins are entirely unrelated.
- Jana and Janna are both in circulation.
- It is period-coded to the mid-twentieth century in America.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 15,000 people named Janna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Janna?
- Janna is one of 5 recorded spellings. Jana is the more common one — 181 births in 2025 against 84 for Janna.
- How popular is the name Janna in 2025?
- Janna ranks #2194 among US girl names in 2025, with 84 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Janna?
- About 1 in every 19,134 US girls born in 2025 was named Janna — 84 in all.
- Will my child share the name Janna with classmates?
- Janna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Janna
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