Zhanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Жа́нна (Žánna)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈʐanːə/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from жанна
Zhanna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 740K
- LVLatvia1 in 511as Žanna
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zhanna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #612 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 named Жанна, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Жанна in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more, Janna in US United States and Jeanne in PL Poland.
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)A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Жа́нна (Žánna)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zhanna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #90 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 685 | register #70 | Жанна | 170 |
| US United States | — | 104,565as Jeanne | 1 in 3.2K | 104K | Janna | 420 |
| UA Ukraine | #105 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 887 | listed | Жанна | 70 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #93 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 650 | 7.5K | Жанна | 56 |
| BY Belarus | #71 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 537 | 1 | Жанна | 32 |
| PL Poland | #735 | 4,686 | 1 in 8.2K | 4.7K | Jeanne | 30 |
| LV Latvia | #873 | 3,685as Žanna | 1 in 511 | 3.7K | Zhanna | 14 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zhanna Prokhorenkob. 1940RUSoviet and Russian actress (1940-2011)
- Jeanna Friskeb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor and singer (1974-2015)
- Zhanna Nemtsovab. 1984RURussian and German journalist
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zhanna mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Жа́нна (Žánna) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Zhanna?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Joan are forms of the same name in other languages; Zhannochka is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Zhanna?
- It depends on the language: in Russian /ˈʐanːə/ (Wiktionary); in English /ˈʒɑː.nə/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Zhanna a male or female name?
- Zhanna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Spain (INE), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Zhanna?
- Mondonomo estimates about 210 thousand people named Жанна in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zhanna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhanna is densest in Poland — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhanna?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,686 people named Zhanna in 2026, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhanna compared with other names?
- In Russia, Zhanna is the 90th most common given name of 472,143 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/zhannaThe 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, “Zhanna” — the 90th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.