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Jana

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Icouldor · 09/10/2026 19:48

How does everyone feel about the name Jana (jan-uh)? Unsure where and when I first heard it but I’ve been a bit obsessed with it lately. I can’t quite get DH to like it as much as I do. According to him, it sounds like the name of an uptight and serious woman. We already have a Margaret (which I think sounds much more serious).

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NamingNoNames · 09/10/2026 20:00

I know two - 'Yana' and 'Jayna'

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JudyTeeny · 09/10/2026 19:56

Jana Novotna, Czech Wimbledon champion, pronounced it Yar-nah. She was absolutely lovely and it's a very nice name.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 09/10/2026 19:55

wishfulthinking25 · 09/10/2026 19:52

I’d think you were eastern/southern european and it was pronounced Yana

Yep I'd also say it Yana, and it would make me think of the late Czech tennis player and former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna.
Edited to add that by Yana and mean more like Yah-na the Yah rhyming the the German for yes (ja)

AlexandraCarrington · 09/10/2026 19:55

The person I knew with that name pronounced it Yanna. Her family was originally from Czechoslovakia - as it was then.

cartagenagina · 09/10/2026 19:54

I know a Jana, she is Canadian and pronounces it Jahn - Ah

MyLeftSkiBoot · 09/10/2026 19:53

I have a friend called Jana, she’s from Slovakia and it is pronounced Yana.

wishfulthinking25 · 09/10/2026 19:52

I’d think you were eastern/southern european and it was pronounced Yana

Cassiteiri · 09/10/2026 19:52

Sounds muslim

BigBadPotato · 09/10/2026 19:51

I know a Jana (and it is, indeed, pronounced Jan-uh!) and she’s the loveliest lady… but I admit I do often think how her name just doesn’t suit her. To my ear, it’s quite harsh and, dare I say, a little ugly. I’m sorry!

Needmorelego · 09/10/2026 19:51

I have always read it as "Jayne-a".
I'm not sure if I have ever actually heard it as spoken out loud.

GardenCovent · 09/10/2026 19:50

if I saw the name I’d pronounce it Yana, but that’s only because it was a girl in my class’s name. She would be in her 50’s now

Thickasabrick89 · 09/10/2026 19:49

Is it not pronounced 'Yana' I've not seen it with a J