Talk:Anna (name)

message: This article has been created by splitting content from Anna, which is a disambiguation page. SlackerMom (talk) 13:24, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New article

message: I looked on another webaite that has the meaning of names... It said that the name "Anna" means "Grace"... Just want4ed to give you guys somemore info on this topic! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.186.208.6 (talk) 00:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Anna (the name)---more infomation

message: It seems that Anne was also a male name; see Anne de Montmorency. Should we mention that? Surtsicna (talk) 13:12, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Male "Anne" are really Arne, misspelled.  Like Arne Saknussem.Eregli bob (talk) 13:45, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

text: I can confirm this for the Netherlands at least, where it is a Frisian variation on "Arne" (see link). Though I disagree with the idea that this would be a 'misspelling'. Caedus (talk) 00:53, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Male Annes

message: A lot of other names have lists of people who have that name, such as Pierce or Karl. Shouldn't we have lists like this for the various names that redirect to this page? Sometimes people need to find real people or fictional characters, only knowing their first name and not who they were or where they were from. Lists help them by giving summaries of these people. Tyciol (talk) 01:23, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List of people?

message: Marina is not a form of name Anna. Marina is other female name - Marina (given name). And in Russian culture there's no name Marianna. Of course people can name their daughters by this name. But anyway it is not Slavic and Russian. --RussianSpy (talk) 12:50, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I grant you that Marina is probably not derived from Mary in the Russian language, though it is a form of the name in other languages and is associated with Mary because she's called Star of the Sea. But Marianna is usually considered a form of Marius or a combination of Mary and Anna and it IS in use in Russia and for more than a century. I've given you examples. I don't object to you removing "Russian" from the Marina entry but I do to you removing it from Marianna. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 19:56, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Tell me 2-3 Russians with name Marianna. Except German and British princesses who became wives of Russian tsars and dukes. --RussianSpy (talk) 20:25, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Marianne Pistohlkors was from a noble family which appears to have had some land in Latvia or elsewhere in the Baltic nations and her mother married a grand duke. She herself was not a Russian princess. But she did have the name and it was in use. And, as I said, it was the name of a Russian child who was adopted. It's in use in other Slavic countries. It appears to be a rare name, which is why you probably don't know anyone with it. Does Russia have a national list of most often used names? I've only seen top 10 or top 30 lists issued by some of the larger cities. Marianna isn't among the top 10 or 30 names. That doesn't mean it isn't in use. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 21:07, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sure. She wasnt Russian - she was Latvian. Other non-Slavic nation. Maybe Marianna is common name somewhere in Poland or Bulgaria or Serbia - somewhere in Western Slavic countries. But this name is not in use in Russia. --RussianSpy (talk) 21:24, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think, you're wrong. I live in Russia and I know some women who are named Marianna (Марианна). It is a rare name. But it's in use.--92.100.234.122 (talk) 00:27, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Russian laws allow you to name your children as you wish. But this doesnt mean that these names became russian. В России полно людей с именами Фарид, Фатима, Ахмет и прочих - но это не делает их русскими именами. --RussianSpy (talk) 21:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

text:  Few links for you "expert" of Russia. By the way - have you ever been to Russia???? Links: Popular Russian Names For Girls, Russian Girls' Names. Prove your point of view, please. --RussianSpy (talk) 21:32, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

text: Usually Marina in Slavic countries is counted to be derieved from Marine, and has nothing common with names like Mary-Ann or Marianne, so it's irrelevant to discuss these names in the same topic. Concerning Marianna and Marjana - surely they're adopted from West-European initial double-name (inadmissible for Slavians) Maria-Anna. Figure19 (talk) 20:06, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

text: http://www.google.ru/search?aq=f&ie=UTF-8&q=%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5 Bookworm857158367, Do you see here, about Marianna or Mary or Anna or other?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moscwich (talk • contribs) 15:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marina and Marianna 

message: The article starts with origins of Anna being Latin form of Greek coming from Hebrew.
I checked 6 latin- English dictionary and couldn't find any occurrence of Anna out of already being a first name, being related to the year, or to sail. 
When talking about origin of first name we don't usually consider where a name was already used as a name, but at what it meant in another language where it was taken from. I would suggest rephrasing that part of the article as it is misleading. Tatisse62 (talk) 00:32, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anna is latin... NOT 

message: Hello, you reverted my contribution with the reason "Non-English characters in an English article." (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_%28name%29&type=revision&diff=1076811109&oldid=1076784198), however there are already variant forms listed in this article with non-English characters like حنا (Arabic) and ანა (Georgian). Also the article says the name Anna is used in Russian so I believe it should be mentioned that it is officially written in another alphabet as Анна because I think the official name is never Anna for Russian people (it is just an English translation). So I suggest to bring back my contribution. --Baptx (talk) 12:03, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  It’s an English language article and the name translates as and is pronounced the same way as the English Anna. Link to the Russian article about the name instead if it doesn’t already. Bookworm857158367 (talk) 15:22, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Bookworm857158367 The link to the Russian article https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_(%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%8F) cannot be added currently on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q666578 because it is already used on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22713652. Anyway I think it can be useful for readers to add the Russian spelling at least between parentheses, so a reader can quickly see what it looks like instead of opening the whole Russian article. It does not harm anything and there are already non-English characters in the English article. Baptx (talk) 21:29, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contribution reverted