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Usage: Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, English
Pronounced: YUWN-na (Swedish, Norwegian), YON-nah (Finnish), YO-na (Danish), JAHN-ə (American English), JAWN-ə (British English)
Meaning: Scandinavian short form and English variant of Ioanna (see JOANNA).
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Pronounced: YUWN-na (Swedish, Norwegian), YON-nah (Finnish), YO-na (Danish), JAHN-ə (American English), JAWN-ə (British English)
Meaning: Scandinavian short form and English variant of Ioanna (see JOANNA).
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Also Low German, Norwegian, Faroese usage.
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This name is also used in English as a feminine form of John, pronounced JAHN-ah.
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Meaning: Short form of Johanna as well as a feminine form of Jon.
https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Jonna
Source: Tammena, Manno Peters: "Namengebung in Ostfriesland", Norden, Germany, 2009 (page 876)
(Information from name #7229 originally submitted by user Diane)