Meaning and history
Jeanna is an English feminine elaboration of Jean or Jeanne. Those names are feminine forms of John and ultimately derive from Hebrew Yehochanan, meaning “Yahweh is gracious.” The doubled n and final a reflect modern spelling and pronunciation rather than a separate etymology. Notable bearers include American actor and singer Jeanna de Waal and American rabies survivor Jeanna Giese, the first person documented to survive symptomatic rabies without having received preventive vaccination beforehand.
20062006: 47 births, rank #3,414
2007: 34 births, rank #4,380
2008: 42 births, rank #3,779
2009: 30 births, rank #4,805
2010: 33 births, rank #4,397
20112011: 16 births, rank #7,436
2012: 33 births, rank #4,387
2013: 26 births, rank #5,143
2014: 22 births, rank #5,797
2015: 25 births, rank #5,288
20162016: 24 births, rank #5,445
2017: 13 births, rank #8,299
2018: 20 births, rank #6,010
2019: 19 births, rank #6,176
2020: 21 births, rank #5,667
20212021: 17 births, rank #6,691
2022: 14 births, rank #7,631
2023: 22 births, rank #5,549
2024: 15 births, rank #7,251
20252025: 19 births, rank #6,116
Jeanna moved from #874 to #962 for girls between 1987 and 1988. Its highest annual birth count came in 1970, with 299 births.