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English
Proper noun
Janna
- A female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.
1984, Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Jane Somers, Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 64:Clever little sister Janna. Correction, Jane. She wasn't going to call me Janna, Jane it was and Jane it will be, to the end. How many times I have said to her, Georgie, no one calls me Jane, no one, I want to be Janna. I can't remember to, says she, making a point, and that's that. She thinks Janna is a smart little name to go with a smart little job.
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Faroese
Proper noun
Janna f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Janna: Jannuson
- daughter of Janna: Jannudóttir
Declension
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singular
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indefinite
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nominative
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Janna
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accusative
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Jannu
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dative
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Jannu
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genitive
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Jannu
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Finnish
Etymology
A contraction of Juliana and Johanna.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Janna
- a female given name
Declension
Statistics
- Janna is the 305th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,626 female individuals (and as a middle name to 174 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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