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How very interesting that the names are reversed and Janeen is a very rare spelling. No, my Grandmother, Essa Mina was married once to Clyde VanNoy. My mom was Sylvia Jane and I just figured she spelled my name to mesh with hers. I also am the Oldest Daughter ( by surprise) as one of the meanings states. But my grandmother was adopted and didn’t know until she was in her 40’s. She said she was 1/4 th Cherokee, but who knows, maybe she was Sioux. I found Mina by searching the list of Tribal names, starting with Cherokee, and only saw it listed in a Sioux registry. That was 9 years ago and I have no idea how I found it.