Zhanna
Zhanna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,919 among girls’ names; 137 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zhanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zhanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zhanna is “a transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Жа́нна (Žánna)”
Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Жа́нна (Žánna), Doublet of Johanna and Joanna.
/ˈʒɑː.nə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zhanna?
#14,919 among girls’ names, 2025
Zhanna entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,919 in 2025.
9 babies in 2016, the peak
Zhanna peaked in 2016, when 9 girls were given it, #11,761 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,919 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,580 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,569 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,222 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,492 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,511 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,650 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,412 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,761 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,481 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #14,566 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,945 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,730 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,800 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,217 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,547 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,135 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,172 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,809 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,173 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #12,042 | 4.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,421 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zhanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zhanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zhanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zhanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 136 Americans named Zhanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,483 people named Zhanna (2,474 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,149 babies since 1880, Zhanna is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 405 babies (1.5%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zhanna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zhanna and names like it
- Compare Zhanna and ZainaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZhanna peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Zhanna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zhanna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.