Zana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: noble; Tuniis, Nabeul, Sousse, Kairouan, Constantine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 167K
- SISlovenia1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Žana in HR Croatia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
noble; Tuniis, Nabeul, Sousse, Kairouan, Constantine
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zana, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Zana | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,988 | 1 in 167K | 1.9K | Zana | 231 |
| SI Slovenia | #389 | 1,597 | 1 in 1.3K | 1.6K | Zana | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Zana | 28 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #566 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 47 | Žana | 12 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,114 | 1 in 2.8K | 1.1K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | #572 | 954 | 1 in 4.4K | 954 | Žana | 37 |
| XK Kosovo | #719 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 1.5K | Zana | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma feminina de Zan; matronímico de Zana/Joana
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Mujer
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In dag, web anvil in a blacksmith shop on which metals are beaten to shape KO KO (vide Faako Naa). Proverb: Zama kuliga bagmi siyibu gar’ a bag loyibu. Knowing how to wade through an oyster river is better than trying to go round it. KO KO KO ? cf. < Hausa zambo ‘ridicule, satirise, accuse falsely’ KO KO : see zani cl. Definition
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Kurdish, Sage, scholar, one who knows, a person who guides society with intellect and learning
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Italian, basket (shallow, oval)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zana Nimanib. 1961RSYugoslav singer
- Zana Muhsenb. 1965GBBritish writer
- Zana Clarkeb. 1965AUAustralian composer
- Zana Briskib. 1966GBBritish photographer and filmmaker
- Zana Farqinib. 1967TRTurkish writer of Kurdish ancestry (born 1967)
- Zana Marjanovićb. 1983BABosnian actress
- Zana Ramadanib. 1984DEpolitician and activist from Germany
- Zana Krasniqib. 1988XKKosovar beauty pageant contestant
- zanaalikaramib. 1994IQnot in their usual namefootballer (born 1994)
- Zana FraillonAUAustralian author
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,617 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.5K | #508 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.1K | #427 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 107 | #1,447 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 102 | #731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 91 | #7,617 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 72 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 52 | #2,269 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2025 | 47 | #48 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2016 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zana?
- A machine transcription gives /zænə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Zana a male or female name?
- Zana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Zana mean, and where does it come from?
- noble; Tuniis, Nabeul, Sousse, Kairouan, Constantine Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Zana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Zana in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zana.
- Where is Zana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zana is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,988 people named Zana in 2020, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
- How common is Zana compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Zana is the 389th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zanaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zana” — the 389th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.