Juana
Juana [ ˈxwana ] is a Spanish female given name .
Origin and meaning
Juana is the feminine form of the masculine given name Juan or the Spanish variant of the feminine given name Johanna and means "YHWH / the Lord is gracious". The diminutive, the nickname is Juanita .
Name bearers
Rulers
- Juana de Austria (1535–1573), governor of Spain
- Juana Enríquez (1425–1468), Castilian nobleman and Queen of Aragon
- Juana de Castilla , Juana la Loca (1479–1555), Spanish ruler
First names
Juana
- Juana Rosario Arrendel (* 1978), Dominican high jumper
- Juana Azurduy de Padilla (around 1780–1862), Latin American guerrilla leader
- Juana Judith Bustos (* 1945), Peruvian singer, actress, beautician and hairdresser
- Juana Caballero , heteronym of the Uruguayan writer Hugo Achugar (* 1944)
- Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican nun and poet
- Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-1892), Argentine writer and journalist
- Juana de Ibarbourou (1895–1979), Uruguayan poet ( Juana de América )
- Juana-Maria von Jascheroff (* 1961), German actress
- Juana la Macarrona (1870–1947), Spanish flamenco dancer
- Juana Manso de Noronha (1819–1875), Argentine writer, feminist, composer, educator and journalist
- Juana Maria (–1853), last Nicoleño Indian
- Juana María de la Concepción Méndez Guzmán (1898–1979), Venezuelan actress and writer
- Juana Molina (* 1961), Argentine singer-songwriter
- Juana Reina (1925–1999), Spanish actress and singer
- Juana Marta Rodas (1925–2013), Paraguayan ceramic artist
- Juana Romani (1869–1923), Italian painter
- Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith (1798–1872), Spanish-British governor's consort
- Juana Fernández Solar (1900–1920), Chilean nun
Juanita
- Juanita Carberry (1925–2013), Kenyan writer
- Juanita Castro (* 1933), Cuban American author
- Juanita Coulson (* 1933). American science fiction, fantasy and horror writer
- Juanita M. Kreps (1921–2010), American economist and politician
- Juanita Millender-McDonald (1938-2007), American politician (Democratic Party)
- Juanita Moore (1914-2014), American actress
- Juanita du Plessis (* 1972), Namibian musician and music producer living in South Africa
Others
- Santa Juana , place in Chile
- Juana Mendez , Dominican name for Ouanaminthe
- Juana (drama) , drama by Georg Kaiser
- Eduardo de Juana (* 1951), Spanish ornithologist
- Iñaki de Juana Chaos (* 1955), Spanish ETA terrorist
Web links
- Juana on en.wiktionary.org (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juana on vornames-weltweit.de
- ↑ Juana on behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ Bibelwissenschaft.de: Johanan. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .