• IPA^(key):/ˈænə/
• (æ-tensing)IPA^(key):[ˈeənə]

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FromLate LatinAnna both directly and via numerous other languages, chiefly in reference toSt Anne the apocryphal mother ofMary mother ofJesus but appearing in theVulgate in reference toAnne the Prophetess, fromKoine GreekἌννα(Ánna) in theNew Testament, fromHebrewחַנָּה(Ḥannâ,“Hannah”), fromחַנָּה(ḥannâ,“grace,gracious,graced withchild”). As a city in Illinois, named for Anna Davie, wife of one of the initial settlers.Doublet ofAnn,Anne,Ana, andHannah.

Anna (pluralAnnas)

1. A femalegiven name from Latin.
   • c. 1886William Ernest Henley,A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:

     Every lover the years disclose / Is of a beautiful name made free. / One befriends, and all others are foes. /Anna's the name of names for me.

   • 1967,Joan G. Robinson,When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published2014,→ISBN, page189:

     M for Madeleine, M for Marguerite, M for Melanie and the rest, she thought, smiling as she remembered the long string of glamorous names they had invented for her. No wonder plain "Anna" had seemed a little disappointing!

   • 1986,Sue Miller,The Good Mother, G.K.Hall, published1987,→ISBN, page183:

     His real name was Leonard, Len. He'd changed it when he came East. "Len," he said. "A turd of a name. Who wants it? I mean a name that ends in a nasalization, for Christ's sake. Leo now. It's likeAnna. They go on forever. You can live with a name like that."

2. Aprophetess in theNew Testament.
   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Luke2:36:

     And there was oneAnna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

3. Acity inIllinois.
4. Acity inTexas.
5. Atown inVoronezh Oblast,Russia.
6. Avillage inJärva,Estonia.
7. Avillage inFars Province,Iran.
8. Avillage inKohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province,Iran.
9. Avillage inOhio; after Anna Thirkield, an early settler.
10. Amunicipality of theValencian Community,Spain.

• The name or its cognates are well used in all European languages because of the medieval cult of St. Anna or Anne, the mother of theVirgin Mary.
• Anna is periodically popular in the English-speaking world as a Latinate variant ofAnn/Anne.

Anna

1. (obsolete)Alternative spelling ofAnah, acity inAnbar,Iraq.

• A.A.N.N.,Nana,anan,na-na,naan,nana

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈan.nə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈan.na]

Anna f

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

• IPA^(key):[ˈana]

Anna f (relational adjectiveAnnin)

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

Anna

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn
2. Anna(Biblical prophetess)

• Ane,Anette,Anita,Anja,Ann,Anne,Annelise,Annemarie,Annette,Anni,Annie,Anny

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 114 513 females with the given name Anna have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

FromMiddle DutchAnna, fromLatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromHebrewחַנָּה(Ḥannâ).

• IPA^(key):/ˈɑ.naː/

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Anna f

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn
2. Anna(Biblical prophetess)

• An,Anita,Ank,Anke,Ankie,Anne,Annet,Annette,Annie,Annita,Anoejska,Ans,Antje
• Hanna

Anna

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

• Anete,Ann,Anne,Anneli,Anni,Annika,Anu

FromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromHebrewחַנָּה(ḥannâ).

Anna f (genitive singularOnnu orAnnu)

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

From VulgateLatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromBiblical Hebrewחַנָּה(ḥannâ) in the Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious".

• IPA^(key):/ˈɑnːɑ/,[ˈɑ̝nːɑ̝]
• Rhymes:-ɑnːɑ
• Syllabification^(key):An‧na
• Hyphenation^(key):An‧na

Anna

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn
   • 1870,Aleksis Kivi,Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 14:

     Aviona oli hänellä Seunalan hoikka tytär, liinatukkainen, kainosilmäinenAnna, hän, joka oli nähnyt kummia näköjä ja houraillen ennustellut paljon ihmeitä.

     Richard A. Impola (1991)

     His wife was the slender daughter of Seunala, shy-eyed Anna, who had seen strange visions in trances and predicted many wonders.

   • 1984, Eira Stenberg,Paratiisin vangit, Tammi,→ISBN, page 5:

     Minun nimeni on Sisko. Ei se ole ihmisen nimi. Se on nimi suhteelle. Minä olin alusta alkaen sivuhenkilö. [ - - - ]Anna oli sievä ja kiharapäinen kuin kiiltokuvaenkeli. Kun äiti huusi häntä ikkunasta, se kuulosti pyynnöltä, lähes rukoukselta: anna, anna! Amen, minä lisäsin usein mielessäni. Koko piha kaikui annoista. [ - - - ]

     My name is Sisko. That's not how a human is called, that's how a relationship is called. I was a side character from the start. [ - - - ]Anna was pretty with curly hair, like an angel from akiiltokuva. When her mother called her out of the window, it sounded like a request, almost like a prayer: anna, anna [give]! Amen, I often answered in my mind, asannas echoed throughout the yard.

   • 2010, Ilkka Raitasuo - Terhi Siltala,Kellokosken prinsessa, Like Kustannus Oy,→ISBN, page211:

     EräänäAnnan päivänä 1960-luvulla ylilääkäri Alivirta oli pistäytynyt osastolla toivottamassa kaikille juhlijoille hyvää nimipäivää. Tuolloin Prinsessa oli oikaissut Isä Paavalia ja todennut, että hän oli oikeastaan Anita. Hän pitiAnnaa hieman rahvaanomaisena ja vanhahtavana etunimenä.

     On oneAnna's day in the 1960s, senior physician Alivirta had visited the department to wish everyone a happy name day. The Princess had then corrected Father Paavali himself and stated that she was actually called Anita. She thought ofAnna as a rather folksy and old-fashioned name.

2. (obsolete)Anna(biblical prophetess)
   • 1548,The Holy Bible,Luke 2:36:

     Ja oliAnna Prophetissa Phanuelin Tyter Aserin sughusta teme oli ioutunudh pitkelle ijelle ia oli elenyt miehens cansa seitzemen wootha hene’ Neitzydeste’s

     And there was oneAnna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

• Traditionally one of the most popular female names in Finland, for example, the most common first name of women throughout the 19th century.
• Common first part of conjoined names such asAnna-Liisa andAnna-Maija.

• (given names)Anita,Anitta,Anja,Anna-Liisa,Anne,Anneli,Anni,Anniina,Annika,Annikki,Annukka,Anu,Hanna
• (surnames)Annala

• Anna is the 4^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 28,677 female individuals (and as a middle name to 17,232 more), and also belongs to 5 male individuals (and as a middle name to 5 more), according toFebruary 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Nana,naan

A Latinate variant of FrenchAnne, fromἌννα(Ánna), equal to theHebrew female nameחַנָּה(ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate withEnglishAnna.

• IPA^(key):/a.na/

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Anna f

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

• nana

FromLatinAnna, which see.

• IPA^(key):/ˈana/,[ˈʔa.na]

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Anna f (genitiveAnnasor(with an article)Anna)

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

• (variants)Anne,Änne
• (pet forms)Anita,Anja,Anke,Ännchen,Anneke,Ännerl,Ännerle,Annette (Anette),Anni (Anny),Änni,Annika (Anika),Antje
• (derivatives)Anneliese (Annelise),Annelie (Anneli),Annemarie,Annemie

• Ána(old orthography)

Borrowed fromDanishAnna.

Anna

1. a femalegiven name from Danish, equivalent to EnglishAnn
2. Anna(biblical)

• Aani
• Anni

• Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (Greenlandic personal names), Oqaasileriffik 2015,→ISBN
• [2] Danskernes navne 2005, including the residents of Greenland

• IPA^(key):[ˈɒnːɒ]

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• Hyphenation:An‧na
• Rhymes:-nɒ

Anna

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

Borrowed fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromHebrewחַנָּה(ḥannâ).

• IPA^(key):/ˈatn̥a/
• Rhymes:-anːa

  Homophone:anna

Anna f (proper noun,genitive singularÖnnu)

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

FromLatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromBiblical Hebrewחַנָּה(Ḥannâ).

• IPA^(key):/ˈan.na/
• Rhymes:-anna
• Hyphenation:Àn‧na

Anna f

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn
2. Hannah(Biblical mother of Samuel)
3. Anna(Biblical prophetess)

• Annina,Nina

• nana

Anna

1. Rōmaji transcription ofアンナ

FromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromBiblical Hebrewחַנָּה(Ḥannâ).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈan.na/,[ˈänːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈan.na/,[ˈänːä]

Anna f sg (genitiveAnnae);first declension

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Italian:Anna

Annā f

1. ablative ofAnna

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1454. From VulgateLatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), equal to theHebrew female nameחַנָּה(ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with EnglishAnn.

Anna f

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn
2. A transliteration of the Russian female given nameА́нна(Ánna)
3. A respelling of the English female given nameAnn
4. A respelling of theEnglish orFrench female given nameAnne

• Ance,Anete,Anita,Annija,Enija

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990,→ISBN
• [3] Population Register of Latvia: Anna was the only given name of 25 747 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

First recorded in Norway in 1340. From VulgateLatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), equal to theHebrew female nameחַנָּה(ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate withEnglishAnn.

Anna

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn
2. Anna, the prophetess.

• One of the most popular given names in Norway since the Middle Ages. For example, the most common name of women born in Norway from the 1870s to the 1910s.

• Ane,Anette,Anita,Anja,Ann,Anne,Annette,Anniken,Anny

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995,→ISBN
• [4] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 17 721 females with the given name Anna living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1880s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

• IPA^(key):(13^th CE)/ˈanna/
• IPA^(key):(15^th CE)/ˈanna/

Anna f

1. a femalegiven name

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Anna”, inSlovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague:Česká grafická společnost "unie",Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Learned borrowing fromLatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromHebrewחַנָּה(ḥannâ).Doublet ofHanna.

• IPA^(key):/ˈan.na/

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• Rhymes:-anna
• Syllabification:An‧na

Anna f (diminutiveAndziaorAneczkaorAniaorAnkaorAnulaorAnusia)

1. a femalegiven name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to EnglishAnn orAnna

• Anna in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Anna f

1. a femalegiven name, variant ofAna

FromLatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromBiblical Hebrewחַנָּה(ḥannâ, literally“grace, gracious”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈan̪ˠa/,/ˈan̪ˠə/

Anna f (diminutiveAnnag)

1. a femalegiven name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to EnglishAnn

• IPA^(key):[ˈana]

Anna f (genitivesingularAnny,nominativepluralAnny,declension pattern ofžena)

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn

• anenský
• Hana
• Anča
• Anica
• Anina
• Anuľa,Hanuľa
• Anka,Hanka
• Anička,Hanička

• “Anna”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025

First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1291.Inherited fromOld SwedishAnna, fromVulgar LatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), equal to theHebrew female nameחַנָּה(ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with EnglishAnn.

• IPA^(key):/²ana/

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Anna c (genitiveAnnas)

1. a femalegiven name, equivalent to EnglishAnn
   • 1994,Marianne Fredriksson,Anna, Hanna och Johanna, Wahlström & Widstrand, published2001,→ISBN, page259:

     Då mindes jagAnna, den ljusa människan. Och så sa jag utan att ha tänkt att jag ville kalla flickanAnna. Mor blev glad, det såg jag nog, men hon sa att jag måste tala med Arne först.
     Han tyckte namnet var gammaldags och rejält. Så var han glad att det inte fanns i släkten.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

• Traditionally one of the most popular Swedish names, for example the most common first name of women born in Sweden in the 1920s, the 1970s and the 1980s.

• Anette,Anita,Anja,Ann,Anne,Anneli,Annelie,Annette,Annie,Annika,Anny

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996,→ISBN
• [5] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin,Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995,→ISBN: 302 997 females with the given name Anna living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June, 2011.

• anan

• Ann
• Ania
• Anita

FromLatinAnna, fromAncient GreekἌννα(Ánna), fromBiblical Hebrewחַנָּה(ḥannâ, literally“grace, gracious”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈana/

Anna f

1. a femalegiven name from Ancient GreekἌννα(Ánna) [in turn from Hebrewחַנָּה(“Hana”)]
2. Wife or mother ofBeli Mawr.
3. Saint Anne

• Annalyn

Heini Gruffudd (2010)Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children‎^[6], Y Lolfa,→ISBN, page17