Ana

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ana is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah.

rarermore common
  • GTGuatemala1 in 28◐
  • SESweden1 in 34
  • PLPoland1 in 36

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.9M ●

across 12 countries

#5 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
574 ●

59M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 34 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

AnaLatin · Portuguese●35M records
АннаCyrillic · Russian●17M records
אנהHebrew · Hebrew●180K records
ᲐნაGeorgian · Georgian●122K records
อรัญญาThai · Thai●45K records
한나Hangul · Korean●37K records
ΑνναGreek · Greek●9.3K records
ԱննաArmenian · Armenian●1.6K records
ሀናEthiopic · Amharic●1.4K records
হাননাহBengali · Bangla●0 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ann in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 2 more, Anna in PL Poland, NL Netherlands, DE Germany and 2 more, Анна in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and Anne in FR France, DK Denmark.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Ana: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ana
  1. Latin[in●
  2. AncientGreek●

Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#1516,296,0895.5M rec.—#5Анна268
UA Ukraine#88,550,1748.5M rec.—listedГанна150
BR Brazil#53,948,6502.1M rec.1 in 543.9MAna279
AR Argentina#353,482,1612M rec.—1.6KAna183
MX Mexico#152,248,4411.7M rec.—29Ana278
GB United Kingdom#82,139,3611.8M rec.—19Ann295
VE Venezuela#121,571,311588K rec.——Ana137
PH Philippines#41,535,7041.1M rec.——Ann195
GT Guatemala#61,299,76897K rec.—1.9KAna124
AU Australia#71,111,882892K rec.—341Ann292
PL Poland#11,063,756△183K rec.1 in 361.1MAnna263
PE Peru#211,033,534618K rec.—215KAna129

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese35M57%
  • Spanish15M25%
  • English6.8M11%
  • Croatian675K1%
  • Arabic339K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese35,435,58757%
Spanish15,316,85225%
English6,798,38411%
Croatian675,1691%
Arabic339,0091%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ana is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name377K records spelled Ana10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Anā, ́ana, Ăna, Aná, Ána

  • French given name185K records spelled Ana15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Also written Anà, Aña, Ặňặ, Anã, Anä

  • Hungarian given name73K records spelled Ana134 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Finland, Hungary, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Änä, Anẳ, Áņà, Áná, Äñâ

118 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anna, or Anne

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, hebreo Hannah, ‘la benéfica’.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Swedish, Ana är en spansk och sydslavisk form av → Anna.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, weibl. Vom., spanische, aber auch bulga­ rische, serbische, kroatische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K1900195020002.7K · 1991

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Ana in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18805
18819
18827
18837
188413
18856
188610
188812
18899
189016
18918
18927
189310
189410
189510
189612
18978
189816
189913
190018
19016
190216
190315
19049
190526
190618
190721
190815
190913
191011
191134
191224
191323
191432
191543
191634
191751
191857
191958
192066
192167
192267
192364
192461
192560
192671
192789
192882
192983
193099
193173
193267
193359
193484
193578
193680
193763
193879
193970
194067
194178
194288
1943108
1944114
1945121
1946135
1947166
1948226
1949235
1950223
1951258
1952288
1953321
1954387
1955387
1956469
1957479
1958539
1959579
1960619
1961649
1962686
1963769
1964758
1965812
1966820
1967847
1968923
1969961
19701,048
19711,069
19721,086
19731,097
19741,179
19751,157
19761,165
19771,137
19781,139
19791,140
19801,325
19811,441
19821,365
19831,309
19841,391
19851,470
19861,641
19871,647
19881,665
19892,276
19902,614
19912,652
19922,328
19932,366
19942,211
19952,367
19962,307
19972,318
19982,265
19992,113
20002,428
20012,518
20022,537
20032,595
20042,348
20052,354
20062,414
20072,228
20081,955
20091,826
20101,575
20111,334
20121,462
20131,349
20141,538
20151,548
20161,436
20171,457
20181,449
20191,395
20201,238
20211,282
20221,403
20231,336
20241,504
20251,276

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Anna Comnena, b. 1083Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain, b. 1549Anne d'Autriche, b. 1601Anna Ivanovna, b. 1693Anna Pawlowa, b. 1882Anna Wintour, b. 1949Anna Lindh, b. 1957Rachel Weisz, b. 1970Anna Kournikova, b. 1981Dakota Fanning, b. 1994
  • Anna Comnenab. 1083TRnot in their usual nameByzantine princess and historian
  • Anna of Austria, Queen of Spainb. 1549ESnot in their usual namequeen consort of Spain (1549-1580)
  • Anne d'Autricheb. 1601ESnot in their usual nameQueen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived (1601-1666)
  • Anna Ivanovnab. 1693RUnot in their usual namefourth Emperor of Russia from 1730 to 1740 (1693-1740)
  • Anna Pawlowab. 1882RUnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer (1881–1931)
  • Anna Wintourb. 1949GBnot in their usual nameEnglish magazine editor
  • Anna Lindhb. 1957SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (1957-2003)
  • Rachel Weiszb. 1970GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1970)
  • Anna Kournikovab. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player and model
  • Dakota Fanningb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1994)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 144 sources across 73 countries.

Official registers attesting Ana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.9M—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.9M#3
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.1M#12
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—3.1M#2
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020321K#161
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020278K—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—242K#11
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—237K#23
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019215K#3
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024166K#3
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202182K#3
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—73K#4

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,973 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ana?
We estimate roughly 6.9 million people bear Ana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Ana have the most bearers?
Ana is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled анна.
How common is Ana compared with other names?
In Russia, Ana is the 15th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Ana a male or female name?
Ana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ana mean?
Recorded meaning: Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ana” — the 15th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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