Janka

Janka is a first and last name.

Origin of the Family and first name

The name Janka has emerged from a Hungarian, Upper Sorbian, Polish or Czech form of the given name " Joan / John " and related to the short form Jan. John is the Greek form of the Hebrew Yochanan ( יוחנן ). January / Janka / Johanna / Johannes mean something like " Yahweh (God) is gracious " or " Yahweh is gracious ".

Variants

As eindeutschenden spellings of Janka apply Janke and Jancke, where these names were used interchangeably in the documents in Bohemia and Moravia, where the official language changed hands several times over the centuries.

Further variants and spellings of the name are Janca, Jancka, Jangke and Janko.

Well-known bearers of the name

  • Albert Janka (1907-1933), German politician ( KPD) and Nazi victims
  • Carlo Janka ( born 1986 ), Swiss skier
  • Gabriel Janka (1864-1932), Austrian wood researcher
  • Markus Janka ( philologist ) (* 1969), German philologist
  • Markus Janka ( hockey player ) ( born 1980 ), German ice hockey goaltender
  • Viktor Janka of Bulcs (1837-1890), Swedish botanist
  • Walter Janka (1914-1994), German publisher
  • Zirzen Janka, (1824-1904), Hungarian teacher ( head of the first teachers college in Budapest)

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