Gender Feminine
Usage English, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Faroese, Catalan, Occitan, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Biblical, Biblical Greek [1], Biblical Latin, Old Church Slavic
Meaning & History
Form of Hannah used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament. Many later Old Testament translations, including the English, use the Hannah spelling instead of Anna. The name appears briefly in the New Testament belonging to a prophetess who recognized Jesus as the Messiah. It was a popular name in the Byzantine Empire from an early date, and in the Middle Ages it became common among Western Christians due to veneration of Saint Anna (usually known as Saint Anne in English), the name traditionally assigned to the mother of the Virgin Mary.In England, this Latin form has been used alongside the vernacular forms Ann and Anne since the late Middle Ages. Anna is currently the most common of these spellings in all English-speaking countries (since the 1970s), however the biblical form Hannah is presently more popular than all three.The name was borne by several Russian royals, including an 18th-century empress of Russia. It is also the name of the main character in Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina (1877), about a married aristocrat who begins an ultimately tragic relationship with Count Vronsky.
Related Names
Rootḥanan
VariantsAnissa, Ann, Anne(English) Anne(German) Annelien, Anne(Dutch) Anne(Swedish) Anne(Norwegian) Anne(Danish) Anne(Finnish) Anne(Estonian) Ana(Bulgarian) Aina(Catalan)
DiminutivesAnnetta(Italian) Anika, Anina, Anneli, Annelie, Anni, Anelie, Anuschka(German) Anika, Anke, Anneke, Anouk, Ans, Antje, Annuska, Anouschka, Anouska, Anuschka(Dutch) Annica, Annika(Swedish) Anniken(Norwegian) Anika, Anni(Danish) Anni, Anniina, Annikki, Annukka, Anu, Niina(Finnish) Anni, Anu(Estonian) Anikó, Panka, Panna, Panni(Hungarian) Aneta, Anika, Anka(Polish) Ania, Annushka, Anya(Russian) Aneta(Czech) Anelia, Aneliya, Aneta, Ani, Anka, Neli(Bulgarian) Annaig, Annick(Breton) Nandag(Scottish Gaelic)
Other Languages & CulturesAna(Albanian) Hanna, Hannah(Arabic) Ane, Anne(Basque) Channa(Biblical Hebrew) Ana, Hana, Anica, Anita, Anja, Anka, Ankica, Jana, Nensi(Croatian) Annet(Eastern African) Ana(Fijian) Anne, Annette, Annick, Annie, Anny, Anouk, Ninon(French) Antje(Frisian) Ana, Anano, Ani, Anuki(Georgian) Chana, Chanah, Hana, Hanna, Hannah(Hebrew) Nainsí(Irish) Ona(Lithuanian) Anke, Antje(Low German) Ana, Hana, Aneta, Jana(Macedonian) Ann(Manx) Ana, Anita(Portuguese) Ana, Anca, Ancuța, Ani, Anișoara(Romanian) Ana, Anica, Anja, Anka, Ankica, Jana(Serbian) Ana, Hana, Anica, Anika, Anita, Anja, Anka, Ankica, Anuša, Nuša(Slovene) Hana(Sorbian) Ana, Ani, Anita(Spanish) Ana(Tongan) Henda, Hendel, Hene, Henye(Yiddish)
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Name Days
Austria: February 9
Austria: July 26
Bulgaria: December 9
Czechia: July 26
Denmark: July 26
Estonia: July 26
Finland: December 9
Germany: July 26
Greece: July 25
Greece: December 9
Hungary: July 26
Italy: July 26
Latvia: July 26
Norway: July 26
Poland: July 26
Poland: August 7
Russia: February 16
Russia: February 23
Russia: April 8
Russia: July 18
Russia: December 22
Slovakia: July 26
Sweden: December 9
Images
Depiction of Saint Anna (a.k.a. Anne) from the 8th centuryCategories
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Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g451, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g451.
