Galena, IL Population and Races. As of 2010-2014, the total population of Galena is 3,358, which is 2.95% less than it was in 2000. The population growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 3.62% and is much lower than the national average rate of 11.61%.
Kim as a nickname for Kimberly is fairly straightforward, but Polly as a nickname for Mary and Peggy as a nickname for Margaret have tripped up many researchers. Sometimes nicknames were formed by adding a y or ey to the end of a name or part of a name - i.e. Johnny for John or Penny for Penelope..
Sometimes in modern English Joanna is reinterpreted as a compound of the two names Jo and Anna, and therefore given a spelling like JoAnna, Jo-Anna, or Jo Anna. However, the original name Joanna is a single unit, not a compound. The names Hannah, Anna, Anne, Ann are etymologically related to Joanna just the same: they are derived from Hebrew ×Ö·× Ö¸Ö¼× á¸¤annÄh 'grace' from the same verbal root meaning 'to be gracious'. 1 In other languages.