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Jovana
Say it: YOH-vah-nah
Meaning
Serbian feminine of Jovan (John), from Hebrew Yohanan 'Yahweh is gracious'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Among the most popular Serbian girls' names from the 1990s on.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 1,968 babies given this name since 1975
- At its height in 2001, about 1 in 9,700 girls
- 22 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Јована
| Croatian | Ivana |
|---|---|
| Russian | Ioanna |
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.