Anna (name)

Anna (name)
Anna is a feminine given name, the Latin form of the and the Hebrew name Hannah, 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, 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:
Aina – Catalan, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian
An – Dutch, Vietnamese
Ana – Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Galician, Georgian, Hawaiian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovene, Slovak, Spanish, Albanian, Bosnian
حنا – Arabic
ანა – Georgian
Anaïs – Catalan, French, Provençal
Anano – Georgian
Anča – Czech, Romanian, Turkish
Ance – Latvian
Anci – Hungarian
Ancsa – Hungarian
Anša – Bosnian, Swahili
Ansja – Swedish, Dutch
Ane – Basque, Danish, Hawaiian
Anechka – Russian
Anelie – German
Anella – Estonian
Anelle – Estonian
Anete – Estonian, Latvian
Anett – Estonian, Hungarian
Anette – Danish, Estonian, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Ania – Polish, Russian, Ukrainian,
Anica – Croatian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish
Anice – Scots
Anicuta – Portuguese, Romanian
Anika – Danish, Dutch, German
Annika – Swedish, Finnish
Anikó – Hungarian
Anilla – Hungarian
Anina – German
Anissa – English
Anisa – Albanian
Anita – Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, English, Polish, Hungarian
Anitte – German
Annychka – Ukrainian
Anja – Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish
Anka – Bulgarian, Czech, German, Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian
Anke – Frisian, German
Anne – Danish, English, Estonian, French, Swedish
Anna – Afrikaans, Armenian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malayalam, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian (Анна), Slovakian, Swedish, Spanish
安娜 – Mandarin Chinese
アンナ – Japanese
杏奈 – Japanese
안나 (An-na) – Korean
Annaki – Greek
Annamma – Malayalam
Annchen – German
Ann – Danish, Dutch, English, French, German
Annechien - Dutch
Anneka – English
Anneke – Dutch
Anneli – Estonian, Finnish, Swedish
Annelie – Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Annella – Scots
Annele – Latvian
Annelle – French
Annet – Dutch
Annetta – Italian
Annette – Danish, Dutch, French, Swedish
Anni – Estonian, Finnish, German, Swedish
Annick – Breton
Annie – Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Swedish
Anniina – Finnish
Annija – Latvian
Annika – Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Swedish
Annike – Estonian
Anniken – Norwegian
Anniki – Estonian
Annikki – Finnish
Anniņa – Latvian
Annio – Greek
Annora – English
Annouche – French
Annoula – Greek
Annu – Finnish
Annus – Hungarian
Annukka – Finnish
Annushka – Russian
Annuska – Hungarian
Anona – English
Anouk – Dutch, French
Ans – Dutch
Antje – Dutch, German
Anu – Estonian, Finnish
Anushka – Russian
Anya – Russian
Anyuta, Anyutka – Russian
Asya – Russian
Asenka – Russian
Chana – Hebrew
Chanah – Hebrew
Channah – Hebrew
Hajnal – Hungarian
Hana ܚܐܢܐ – Syriac
Hana – Czech, Lithuanian, Slovak, Turkish, Romanian
Hania – Ukrainian, Polish
Hanna – Belarusian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Ge'ez, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Hungarian
Hannah – Hebrew, Arabic, English, Estonian, Swedish
Hanne – German, Scandinavian
Hannela – Estonian
Hannele – Estonian, Finnish
Hannelore – German
Hannusia – Ukrainian
Hena – Yiddish
Henda – Yiddish
Hendel – Yiddish
Hene – Yiddish
Henye – Yiddish
Ona – Hebrew, Lithuanian, Finnish
Onnee – Manx
Panka – Hungarian
Panna – Hungarian
Panni – Hungarian
Աննա – Armenian
แอนนา - Thai language
Composite names including Anna and variants
Áine – Irish version of Anna
Anabel – English, Galician, Polish, Spanish, Hungarian
Anabela – Portuguese
Anabella – Spanish, English, Hungarian
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
Ann – Dutch, English
Annabel – Catalan, Dutch, English, Estonian
Anna-Bella – English, Swedish
Annabell – Hungarian
Annabella – English, German, Italian, Swedish, Hungarian
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
Anneke – Dutch
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, Slovak
Mariana – Czech, Estonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
Mariann – Estonian, Hungarian
Marianna – Hungarian
Mari-Ann – Estonian
Mari-Anna – Estonian
Marianna – English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian
Mari-Anne – Estonian
Marianne – English, Danish, Estonian, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Marijana – Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Marjaana – Estonian, Finnish
Marjaane – Estonian
Marjan – Dutch
Marjana – Croatian, Danish
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:
Academics, medicine, and science
Anna Akhmanova (born 1967), Russian cell biologist
Anna Apostolaki (1880–1958), Greek archaeologist and museum curator
Anna Coble (died 2009), American biophysicist
Anna Manning Comfort (1845–1931), American physician
Anna Lukens (1844–1917), American physician
Anna K. Mapp (born 1970), American chemist
Anna McAllister (1888–1961), American historian
Anna Melyukova (1921–2004), Russian archaeologist
Anna Merz (1931–2013), English conservationist
Anna Stroka (1923–2020), Polish literary historian and author
Anna May Waters (1903–1987), Canadian nurse
Anna Weber-van Bosse (1852–1921), Dutch phycologist
Anna Irwin Young (1873–1920), American mathematician
Activism
Anna Smeed Benjamin (1834–1924), American social reformer
Anna Gardner (1816–1901), American abolitionist, poet, teacher
Anna M. Hammer (1840–1910), American philanthropist and temperance movement leader
Anna Jacobsen (1924–2004), Norwegian champion of Southern Sami language and culture
Anna Lewis (suffragette) (1889–1976), British suffragette, member of the militant Women's Social and Political Union
Anna Sophia Polak (1874–1943), Dutch Jewish feminist and author
Anna Rankin Riggs (1835–1908), American social reformer
Anna Stonum (1958–1999), American artist and disability rights activist based in Chicago
Anna Augusta Truitt (1837–1920), American philanthropist, reformer, essayist
Aristocracy
Anna of Austria (1528–1590), daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (1573–1598), Queen consort of Poland and Sweden, wife of Sigismund III Vasa
Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (1549–1580), Queen consort of Spain, wife of Philip II
Anna van Egmont (1533–1558), Dutch noble, first wife of William the Silent
Anna d'Este (1531–1607), Italian-born French princess
Anna of Hohenstaufen (1230–1307), Empress of Nicaea
Anna Khanum (died 1647), Queen consort of Iran, wife of Safi I
Anna Komnene (1083–1153), daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexius I and writer of the Alexiad
Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria (1616–1676), Italian noble, Austrian royal consort
Anna Palaiologina (died 1320), Byzantine princess
Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795–1865), Queen consort of the Netherlands, wife of William II
Anna Porphyrogenita (963–1011), Grand Princess consort of Kiev
Anna of Russia (1693–1740), Empress of Russia
Anna of Savoy (1306–1365), Byzantine Empress consort
Anna of Saxony (1544–1577), German noble, second wife of William the Silent
Anna of Trebizond (died 1342), Empress of Trebizond
Anna of Tyrol (1585–1618), Holy Roman Empress
Arts and entertainment
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
Anna Bergendahl (born 1991), Swedish singer
Anna Blackwell (1816–1900), English writer
Anna Blaman (1905–1960), Dutch writer and poet
Anna Bochkoltz (1815–1879), German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer
Anna Borg (1903–1963), Danish-Icelandic actress
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812–1886), Dutch novelist
Anna Mae Bullock (1938–2023), American singer, better known as Tina Turner
Anna Camp (born 1982), American actress and singer
Anna Cathcart (born 2003), Canadian actress
Anna Chatterton, Canadian playwright
Anna Chell (born 1998), English actress
Anna Chlumsky (born 1980), American actress
Anna Ciddor (born 1957), Australian author and illustrator
Anna Peyre Dinnies (1805–1886), American writer
Anna Bowman Dodd (1858–1929), American writer
Anna Dodsworth (c. 1740–1801), British romantic poet
Anna Drijver (born 1983), Dutch actress and model
Anna Enquist (born 1945), Dutch poet and novelist
Anna Eriksson, (born 1977) Finnish singer
Anna Faris, (born 1976) American actress
Anna Friel, (born 1976), English actress
Anna Gunn (born 1968), American actress
Anna Haava (1864–1957), Estonian poet
Anna Hopkins (born 1987), Canadian actress
Anna Hutchison (born 1986) is a New Zealand actress and producer.
Anna Indermaur (1894–1980), Swiss artist
Anna Iriyama (born 1995), Japanese idol singer (AKB48)
Anna Karen (1936–2022), South African-born British actress
Anna Kendrick (born 1985), American film and stage actress
Anna Magnani (1908–1973), Italian actress
Anna Mantzourani (1935-1991) Greek actress
Anna Margaret Collins (born 1996), American singer-songwriter and actress
Anna Massey (1937–2011), English actress
Anna McGahan (born 1988), Australian actress
Anna McGarrigle (born 1944), Canadian singer
Anna Murashige (born 1998), Japanese idol singer (HKT48, NMB48)
Anna Nagase (born 2005), Japanese voice actress
Anna Nagata (born 1982), Japanese actress
Anna Navarro (1933–2006), American film and television actress
Anna Neethling-Pohl (1906–1992), South African actress, performer and film producer
Anna Netrebko Russian Austrian operatic soprano
Anna-Stina Nilstoft (1928–2017), Swedish artist
Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), Romanian-French writer
Anna Notaras (died 1507), Byzantine writer
Anna Campbell Palmer (1854-1928), American author, editor
Anna Panayiotopoulou (born 1947), Greek actress
Anna Paquin (born 1982), Canadian-born New Zealand actress
Anna Passey (born 1984), English actress
Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), prima ballerina
Anna Quayle (1932–2019), English actress
Anna Rezan (born 1992), Greek actress
Anna Rutgers van der Loeff (1910–1990), Dutch writer of children's novels
Anna Ruysch (1666–1741), Dutch flower painter
Anna T. Sadlier (1854-1932), Canadian writer, translator
Anna van Schurman (1607–1678), Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar
Anna Sedokova (born 1982), Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter
Anna Seghers (1900–1983), German writer
Anna Semenovich (born 1980), Russian singer, actress, model, and former ice dancer
Anna Shulgina (born 1993), Russian film and stage actress, singer and TV presenter
Anna Sueangam-iam (born 1998), Thai actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
Anna Teichmüller (1861–1940), German composer
Anna Thynn, Marchioness of Bath (1943–2022), Hungarian actress and British noblewoman by marriage
Anna Tonelli (c.1763–1846), Italian portrait painter in the late 17th century and early 18th century
Anna Torma (born 1952), Hungarian-Canadian fibre artist
Anna Tsygankova (born 1979), Russian ballet dancer
Anna Visscher (1584–1651), Dutch artist, poet, and translator
Anna Vissi (born 1957), Greek-Cypriot singer
Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston (1812–1899), American writer
Anna Wise (born 1991), American singer
Anna Woltz (born 1981), Dutch writer
Anna Zak (born 2001), Israeli singer
Journalism
Anna Cabana (born 1979), French journalist
Anna Dániel (1908–2003), Hungarian journalist
Anna Shechtman (born 1990/1991), American journalist and crossword compiler
Anna Wintour (born 1949) British-American fashion journalist and editor-in-chief of the magazine Vogue
Law and politics
Anna Aalto (1920–1994), Finnish physician and politician
Anna Benaki-Psarouda (born 1934), Greek politician
Anna Caballero (born 1955), American politician
Anna Chernenko (1913–2010), First Lady of the Soviet Union
Anna Diamantopoulou (born 1959), Greek politician
Anna-Maria Galojan (born 1982), Estonian politician, model, and fugitive
Anna Kostanyan (born 1987), Armenian politician
Anna McMorrin (born 1971), British politician
Anna Seile (1939–2019), Latvian politician
Anna Soubry (born 1956), British politician
Anna Stavitskaya (born 1972), Russian lawyer
Anna Turley (born 1978), British politician
Anna de Waal (1906–1981), Dutch politician, Secretary of Education
Sportspeople
Anna Beck (born 1979), Swedish para-cyclist
Anna Blässe (born 1987), German footballer
Anna Blinkova (born 1998), Russian tennis player
Anna van der Breggen (born 1990), Dutch racing cyclist
Anna Chakvetadze (born 1987), Russian tennis player
Anna Gerasimou (born 1987), Greek tennis player
Anna Haak (born 1996), Swedish volleyball player
Anna Korakaki (born 1996), Greek shooter
Anna Kournikova (born 1981), Russian tennis player
Anna Lapushchenkova (born 1986), Russian tennis player
Anna Lazareva (born 1997), Russian volleyball player
Anna Makurat (born 2000), Polish basketball player
Anna Menconi (born 1971), Italian Paralympic archer
Anna Nordqvist (born 1987), Swedish golfer
Anna Ntountounaki (born 1995), Greek swimmer
Anna Patten (born 1999), English footballer
Anna Pezzetta (born 2007), Italian figure skater
Anna Polak (1906–1943), Dutch Jewish gymnast
Anna Pollatou (1983–2014), Greek rhythmic gymnast
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (born 1994), Slovak tennis player
Anna Shcherbakova (born 2004), Russian figure skater
Anna Segal (born 1986), Australian Olympic freestyle skier, twice world champion
Anna Smashnova (born 1976), Belarus-born Israeli tennis player
Anna Spyridopoulou (born 1988), Greek basketball player
Anna Tatishvili (born 1990), Georgian tennis player
Anna van der Vegt (1903–1983), Dutch gymnast
Anna Verouli (born 1956), Greek javelin thrower
Anna Villani (born 1966), Italian marathon runner
Anna Wood (kayaker) (born 1966), Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist
Misc
Anna, prophetess mentioned in the Gospel of Luke 2:36
Anna Ahlström (1863–1943), Swedish teacher, principal, and school founder
Anna Anderson (1896–1984), Romanov impostor who claimed she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
Anna Fisher Beiler (1848–1904), British-born American missionary, newspaper editor
Anna Farquhar Bergengren (1865–1???), American writer, editor
Anna Bijns (1493–1575), Flemish writer, schoolteacher and nun
Anna Linnikova (born 2000), Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder
Anna Ewers, (born 1993), German fashion model
Anna Gurney (1795–1857), English scholar, philanthropist, geologist and a member of the Gurney family of Norfolk
Anna Roosevelt Halsted (1906–1975), only daughter of president Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anna Harrison (1775–1864), wife of president William Henry Harrison
Anna Morris Holstein (1824–1901), American organizational founder, civil war nurse, author
Anna McGurk (1968–1991), British murder victim
Anna Mons (1672–1714), Dutch commoner who almost succeeded in marrying Tsar Peter the Great
Anna Nanousi, Greek fashion model and television presenter
Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan (1880–1964), American professor, author
Anna Hall Roosevelt (1863–1892), mother of Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Peck Sill (1816–1889), American educator
Anna Skarbek (born 1976), Australian businesswoman and former investment banker
Anna Synodinou (1927–2016), Greek actress and politician
Anna Tuschinski (1841–1939), Esperantist from Danzig
Anna Vignoles, British educationalist
Ann Wilkins (1806–1857), American missionary teacher
as a masculine name
Anna of East Anglia (died 653 or 654), king of East Anglia
Fictional use
Anna, the sister of Dido, Queen of Carthage, in Roman mythology and later literature
Anna, an alternate name for Morgause of Arthurian legend
Anna Blake, a character from the Scooby-Doo video-games Scooby-Doo! First Frights and Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp
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, a main character in a novel written by Leo Tolstoy of the same name
Anna Kyoyama, a character from Shaman King
Anna Kakuzawa, a character in the Elfen Leid manga series
Anna Marks, a character in the film He's Just Not That Into You
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
A character in the animated series Space Carrier Blue Noah
A character in Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn
The main character in When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Anna or Ti'ana, a character in the Myst games
Anna Elizabeth "Rag" Shaw, the protagonist in Light of My Life
See also
Ana (given name)
Anna (disambiguation)
Annie (disambiguation)
Annette (disambiguation)
Hannah (given name)
Sammarinese given names
Notes
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