Zhanna
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Zhanna is a girls' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Zhanna mean?
Slavic
A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Жа́нна (Žánna)
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Zhanna a girl's or a boy's name?
Zhanna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zhanna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Zhanna, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Zhanna in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zhanna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Zhanna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zayla, Zaira, Safa, Zaina, Zamira, Zahara, Zaya, Ayra, Ayla, Hafsa, Sama, Salma
Names related to Zhanna
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zhanna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zhanna, updated 20 October 2026.