Yana

Meanings

1. A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
2. A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.

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

1. The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.

1. Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice.

Etymology

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