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Girl · Hebrew, through Latin
Juana
Say it: HWAH-nah
Meaning
Feminine of Juan, from Hebrew Yohanan 'God is gracious'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
One of the commonest women's names of late-medieval and early-modern Spain.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1900s
In the United States
- 17,934 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1904, about 1 in 6,100 girls
- 140 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
SpanishCatalanPortugueseBasqueMexicanCentral AmericanAndeanArgentineCaribbean
The family of the name
Other spellings: Juanita
| Catalan | Joana |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | Joana |
| Galician | Xoana |
| Basque | Joana |
| French | Jeanne |
| English | Jane |
| Italian | Giovanna |
Famous bearers
- Joanna I of Castile, 'Juana la Loca'
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, poet of New Spain
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Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Medieval Spanish and Portuguese chronicles and charters
- Parish baptism registers
- Colonial records of the Americas
- 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.