Anna (name)

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Anna
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Girlhood of Mary Virgin.jpg
Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, depicted instructing her daughter in this painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The popularity of the name Anne is largely due to this saint.
Pronunciation/ˈænə/
GenderFemale
Origin
Language(s)Hebrew, Greek, Latin
Meaningfull of grace, Favor
Other names
Variant form(s)Ana, Anne, Annie
See alsoHanna

Anna is a feminine given name, the Latin form of the Greek: Ἄννα and the Hebrew name Hannah (Hebrew: חַנָּה Ḥannāh), meaning "favour" or "grace" or "beautiful". Anna is in wide use in countries across the world as are its variants Ana, Anne, originally a French version of the name, though in use in English speaking countries for hundreds of years, and Ann, which was originally the English spelling. Saint Anne is traditionally the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary, which accounts for its wide use and popularity among Christians. The name has also been used for numerous saints and queens.

In the context of pre-Christian Europe, the name can be found in Virgil's Aeneid,[1] where Anna appears as the sister of Dido advising her to keep Aeneas in her city.

Variant forms[]

Alternate forms of Anna, including spelling variants, short forms, diminutives and transliterations are:

Composite names including Anna and variants[]

  • Áine – Irish version of Anna
  • Anabel – English, Galician, Polish, Spanish
  • Anabela – Portuguese
  • Anabella – Spanish, English
  • Anabelle – English
  • Ana Laura - Spanish, Portuguese
  • Analeigh – English
  • Ana Luisa - Spanish, Portuguese
  • Ana Maria – Portuguese
  • Ana María – Spanish
  • Anamaria – English
  • Anamaría – Spanish
  • Ana-Maria – Romanian
  • Annabel – Catalan, Dutch, English, Estonian
  • Anna-Bella – English, Swedish
  • Annabella – English, German, Italian, Swedish
  • Annabelle – English, French
  • Annabeth – English
  • Anna-Carin – Swedish
  • Anna Greta - English, German, Swedish
  • Anna-Greta – Swedish
  • Anna Julia - English, German, Swedish
  • Anna-Julia - Swedish
  • Anna Laura - English, German, Swedish
  • Anna-Laura - Swedish
  • Annalee – English
  • Annaleigh - English
  • Annaline - English
  • Annalyn - English
  • Annalynne - English
  • Annalyssa - English
  • Anna Lisa - English, German, Swedish
  • Anna-Lisa – Swedish
  • Anna Louisa - English, German, Swedish
  • Anna-Louisa - Swedish
  • Anna Maria – English, German, Swedish, Catalan
  • Anna-Maria – Estonian, Finnish, Polish, Swedish
  • Annamaria – Italian
  • Annamária – Hungarian
  • Ann-Britt – Swedish
  • Ann-Charlotte – Swedish
  • Ann-Christin – Swedish
  • Annegret – German
  • Annelien – Dutch
  • Annelies – Dutch, German
  • Anneliese – Dutch, German
  • Annelise – Danish
  • Anneloes – Dutch
  • Annemarie – Dutch, English, German
  • Annemiek – Dutch
  • Annemieke – Dutch
  • Annesophie – German
  • Ann-Kristin – Swedish
  • Ann-Louise – Swedish
  • Ann-Margret – Swedish
  • Ann-Mari – Swedish
  • Ann-Marie – Swedish
  • Annmarie – English
  • Ann-Sofi – Swedish
  • Ann-Sofie – Swedish
  • Ittianna – Malayalam
  • Julianna - English, German
  • Julianne - English, French
  • Lauranna - English, German
  • Lauranne - English, French
  • Leann – English
  • Leanna – English
  • Leanne – English
  • Leeann – English
  • Lianna - English
  • Liliana - Portuguese
  • Lisann – Estonian
  • Lisanna – Estonian
  • Lisanne – Dutch, English, Estonian
  • Luana – English
  • Luann – English
  • Luanna – English
  • Luanne – English
  • Lyanna – English, French, Greek, Latin
  • Lyanne – English, French, Greek, Latin
  • Marian – English, Estonian
  • Mariana – Czech, Estonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
  • Mariann – Estonian
  • Mari-Ann – Estonian
  • Mari-Anna – Estonian
  • Marianna – English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian[citation needed], Slovakian
  • Mari-Anne – Estonian
  • Marianne – English, Danish, Estonian, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish
  • Marijana – Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
  • Marjaana – Estonian, Finnish
  • Marjaane – Estonian
  • Marjan – Dutch
  • Marjana – Slovene, Ukrainian
  • Maryann – English
  • Maryanne – English
  • Hanna-Liina – Estonian
  • Pollyanna – English
  • Rosanna – English, Italian, Portuguese
  • Roseanne – English
  • Ruthanne – English
  • Saranna – English

People[]

Anna is a very common given name. People with the name include:

as a masculine name

Fictional use[]

  • Anna, an alternate name for Morgause of Arthurian legend
  • Anna Delaney, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
  • Anna De Souza, a character in ITV soap opera Emmerdale
  • Anna Lightwood, a protagonist from the upcoming series The Last Hours, part of The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
  • Anna Karenina is a main character in a novel written by Leo Tolstoy of the same name
  • Anna Kakuzawa, a character in the Elfen Leid manga series
  • Anna Marvin, a character in the 1991 American comedy movie What About Bob?
  • Anna Perenna, the sister of Dido in Roman mythology and later literature
  • Anna, Princess of Arendelle and the protagonist of Disney's movie Frozen
  • Anna Schmidt, a character in Mind Your Language
  • Anna Valerious, a character in the 2004 film Van Helsing
  • Anna Williams, a character in the Tekken video game series
  • Anna Windass, a character in ITV soap opera Coronation Street

See also[]

  • Ana (given name)
  • Anna (disambiguation)
  • Annie (disambiguation)
  • Annette (disambiguation)
  • Hannah (given name)

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Virgil, Aeneid Book 4, lines 31-52". Perseus Digital Library.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Lie, Kwang-Sook (1996). "Foreign First Names in Korea" (PDF). The SNU Journal of Education Research. 06: 51–59.
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