In Arabic Hana, written هناء, means happiness or bliss.
― Anonymous User 6/10/2018
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The name Hana was given to 334 girls born in the US in 2016. More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Hana are female.
― Anonymous User 6/7/2017
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Hana Horáková is a female basketball player from the Czech Republic who plays for BK Brno. She was a member of the national team that won the European title in 2005 by defeating Russia in the final. Playing as a guard she also competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing in fifth place in 2004 and in seventh place at the other two Olympics.
One of the main characters in The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje is named Hana - she is a young French Canadian nurse working in Northern Italy during WWII.
While I lived in the Czech Republic, one of my best friends was named Hana. The name's always been positive to me, but I do prefer it with two 'n's (and probably an 'h', too).
HANA in Czech or Slovak isn't only a "short form of Johana", it is also a form of the name Anna, in English Ann, but Anna is maybe one from Slavic form of Hannah, Hana @ Anna, Johana is Jane.