Juana
Appearance
Gender | Female |
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Other gender | |
Masculine | Juan(Spanish) |
Origin | |
Word/name | Spanish derivation ofJane or Manx derivation ofJane |
Meaning | "Yahwehhas been Gracious ",[1]"Graced by Yahweh" (Johanan) |
Region of origin | Spain/Philippines/Latin America |
Other names | |
Pet form(s) | Juanita(Spanish) |
Related names | Jane,Jean,Joan,Joanna,Juan,John |
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Juanais aSpanishfemale name. It is the feminine form ofJuan(EnglishJohn), and thus corresponds to the English namesJane,Jean,Joan,andJoanna.The feminine diminutive form (male equivalent toJohnny) isJuanita(equivalent toJanet,Janey,Joanie,etc). It is very common inSpain,the otherSpanish-speaking countriesaround the world, and in thePhilippines.The nameJuanamay refer to:
People
[edit]- Juana I(1479–1555), Queen of Castile and Aragon
- Juana Rosa Aguirre(1877–1963), Chilean first lady
- Juana Azurduy de Padilla(1780–1862), South American military leader
- Juana Barraza(born 1957), Mexican serial killer
- Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza(1875–1942), Mexican writer
- Juana Bormann(1893–1945), German war criminal
- Juana Briones de Miranda(1802–1889), American landowner
- Juana Castro(born 1933), Cuban exile
- Juana Cruz(1917–1981), Spanish bullfighter
- Juana Dib(1924-2015), Argentine poet, journalist, and teacher
- Juana de Ibarbourou(1892–1979), Uruguayan poet
- Juana Enríquez(1425–1468), Queen of Aragon
- Juana Inés de la Cruz(1651–1695), Mexican scholar
- Juana Larando(fl. 1630), Basque femaleprivateer
- Juana Lecaros(1920–1993), Chilean visual artist and poet
- Juana Teresa Juega López(1885-1979), Galician-language Spanish poet
- Juana Lumerman(1905–1982), Argentine artist
- Juana Manuel(1339–1381), Queen of Castile
- Juana Manuela Gorriti(1818–1892), Argentine writer
- Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith(1798–1872), Spanish noblewoman
- Juana Maria(1811–1853), Native American castaway
- Juana Molina(born 1961), Argentine singer-songwriter
- Juana Romani(1869–1924), Italian painter
- Juana Ross Edwards(1830-1913), Chilean philanthropist
- Juana de J. Sarmiento(1899-1979), Colombian politician, activist
- Juana Saviñón(born 1980), Dominican volleyball player
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). .Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.