Janka (name)
Janka is a first and family name .
Origin of the family and first name
The name Janka is from a Hungarian, Upper Sorbian, Polish or Czech form of the first name " Johanna / John emerged" with the short form in January related. John is the Greek form of the Hebrew Yochanan (יוחנן). Jan / Janka / Johanna / Johannes mean something like " YHWH (God) is gracious" or "YHWH is kind".
variants
Janke and Jancke are regarded as German spelling of Janka , although in Bohemia and Moravia , where the official language has changed several times over the centuries, these names were used synonymously in the documents.
Other variants and spellings of the name are Janca , Jancka , Jangke and Janko .
In the Rhaeto-Romanic language area , Janka is a variant of the male given name Johannes .
Name bearer
family name
- Albert Janka (1907–1933), German politician (KPD) and Nazi victim
- Carlo Janka (* 1986), Swiss ski racer
- Emil Janka (1894–1952), German lawyer
- Friedrich Janka (1878–1957), German lawyer and politician
- Gabriel Janka (1864–1932), Austrian wood researcher
- Jörg Paul Janka (* 1965), German visual artist
- Markus Janka (classical philologist) (* 1969), German philologist
- Markus Janka (ice hockey player) (* 1980), German ice hockey goalkeeper
- Viktor Janka von Bulcs (1837–1890), Hungarian botanist
- Walter Janka (1914–1994), German publisher
- Zirzen Janka (1824–1904), Hungarian teacher (head of the first teacher training institute in Budapest)
First name
male
- Janka Bryl (1917-2006), Belarusian writer
- Janka Kupala (1882–1942), Belarusian national poet, playwright, publicist and translator
- Janka Nabay (1964–2018), Sierra Leonean singer, composer and band leader
Female
- Janka Mikes (1866–1930), lady-in-waiting to Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary
- Janka Rohrberg (* 1988), German soccer player
Web links
- In-depth explanations of the family name Janka
- Name distribution Janka in Germany
- Name distribution Janka in USA
- The Janka family at Familysearch (Mormon archive): [1]