Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A female given name from French, a feminine form of John. · A male given name from Catalan, a form of John.
A placeholder or conventional name for any woman, particularly a younger lower-class woman. · A kind of close-fitting cap for women popular in the mid-18th century.
A clipped or hypochoristic form of Joanna, from Latin Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Derivation mentionJoannala
- Derivation mentionיוֹחָנָהhe
- Doublet mentionIvanaen
- Doublet mentionJanaen
- Doublet mentionJaneen
- Doublet mentionJaniceen
- Doublet mentionJanisen
- Doublet mentionJeanen
- Doublet mentionJeanneen
- Doublet mentionJenen
- Doublet mentionJoannaen
- Doublet mentionJoanneen
- Doublet mentionJohannaen
- Doublet mentionJuanaen
- Doublet mentionShavonneen
- Doublet mentionSianen
- Doublet mentionSiobhanen
- Doublet mentionShaneen
- Doublet mentionShaunen
- Doublet mentionShaunaen
- Doublet mentionSheenaen
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