Jayna Hefford is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and current chairperson of the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association. During her career, she won multiple medals at the Winter Olympics and IIHF World Women's Championships as well as titles in the National Women's Hockey League and Canadian Women's Hockey League. She helped Canada win four-straight Olympic gold medals from 2002 to 2014 and famously scored the gold medal-winning goal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. At the club level across three leagues, she scored 439 goals in 418 competitive games including a CWHL record 44 goals in 2008–09.She was selected to be inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame on June 26, 2018. On July 19, 2018, Hefford was named interim commissioner of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. She was named a 2019 Order of Hockey in Canada recipient.
I combined my husband's name, JAY and my name DANA = JAYNA. I thought I was being original but then I found out about the girl twin of the Wonder Twins. Pretty cool.
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Wonder Twins, (Super Friends Justice League 1977) Zan (male) and JAYNA (female).
Jayna (or Jaynagul), is a Kazakh name, but I am not sure what it means. I think that it sounds beautiful, whoever names their daughter it deserves a lot of compliments. :)
I'm obviously a huge Star Wars fan, so I think it would be cool to use a variation of this name name, Jaina, as Jaina Solo is the name of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo's daughter in the books, but it does not blatantly scream "Star Wars" to non-fans.
I personally decided to name my daughter Jayna using my Father's name Jay and putting the na at the end to make it feminine. When I came up with the name I did not realize I had heard it before. I thought I was coming up with something new. I have since realized the the Girl in Marvel Comics Hall of Justice Wonder Twins was named Jayna. I was eight when I watched this show.
She was selected to be inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame on June 26, 2018. On July 19, 2018, Hefford was named interim commissioner of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. She was named a 2019 Order of Hockey in Canada recipient.