Janka

This article is about the given name and surname. For other uses, see Janka (disambiguation).

Janka is a given name or a surname. The name may be a diminuntive of the given name Jan (name). .Notable people with the name include:

Janka

Gender	Male, Female
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	"God is merciful"
Region of origin	Germanic, Hungarian, Slovak
Other names
Related names	John, Johan, Jan

Given name

• Janka Tilleman, birth name of Jolie Gabor (1896–1997), Austro-Hungarian Countess de Szigethy, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor
• Ahmed Janka Nabay, Sierra Leonean musician

Surname

• Carlo Janka (born 1986), Swiss alpine ski racer
• Erika Jänkä (born 1995), Finnish biathlete
• Les Janka, American consultant
• Gabriel Janka (1864–1932), Austrian wood researcher
• Victor von Janka (1837–1900), Hungarian botanist
• Walter Janka (1914–1994), German publisher

See also

• All pages with titles containing Janka}
• Yanka

External links

• Distribution of the name Janka in the United States Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine