Yana

Meanings

Noun

• A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.

Proper Noun

• A female given name from Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian name Я́на.
• A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.
• The now extinct Hokan language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.

Origin

• Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).