Hanna

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ana in BR Brazil, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 9 more, Ann in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 2 more, Anna in PL Poland, NL Netherlands, DE Germany and 2 more and Анна in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye.

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●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Hanna is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name101K records spelled Hanna21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, Philippines, Spain

  Also written Hännä, Hánna, H'Anna, Hänna, Hanná

• French given name63K records spelled Hanna5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Sweden, Belgium

  Also written Hânna, Hannâ, H'Anna, Hànnà

• Arabic given name57K records spelled Hanna5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Syria, Sweden

  Also written Ḥannā, Hànnà, Hânnâ

• a separate given name22K records spelled Hanna6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Ukraine, Ethiopia

  Also written Ḥannā, Han-Na, Ḥanna, Hännä, Hannà

• Indonesian given name21K records spelled Hanna5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Hanna, Hanna', Hânnâ

81 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●

Hanna 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.

• from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, ultimately from Hebrew Ghana ‘He (God) has favored me’ (i.e. with a child). The name is borne in the Bible by the mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 1: 1-28), and there is a tradition (unsupported by Biblical evidence) that it was the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary; this St. Anne was a popular figure in medieval art and legend.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAnnaigh ‘descendant of Annach’, a byname of uncertain meaning.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• from a pet form of the personal name Hans.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Polish, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Hannah

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Hanna är ett bibliskt namn av hebreiskt ursprung, bildat till hebreiskt channā ’nåd’. Hanna är namnet på Samuels mor i Gamla testamentet, på grekiska transkriberat → Anna. Det är också en nordisk smekform till → Johanna. Namnet har varit ett av de mest populära ända sedan 1980-talet men är nu på nedåtgående. I den rikssvenska almanackan 5 januari och i den finlandssvenska 21 juli.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 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●

• Hannah Chaplinb. 1865GBnot in their usual nameEnglish stage and musical actress (1866–1928)
• Hannah Arendtb. 1906USnot in their usual nameGerman-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
• Hanna Suchockab. 1946PLPolish political figure, Prime Minister of Poland
• Rachel Weiszb. 1970GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1970)
• Hanna Pakarinenb. 1981FIFinnish pop and rock singer
• Hannah Harperb. 1982GBnot in their usual nameEnglish pornographic actress and director
• Jess Glynneb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer (born 1989)
• Hannah John-Kamenb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
• Hannah Murrayb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress
• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,488 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hanna?

We estimate roughly 6.9 million people bear Hanna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Hanna have the most bearers?

Hanna is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled анна.

How common is Hanna compared with other names?

In Russia, Hanna is the 15th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Hanna a male or female name?

Hanna 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 Hanna mean?

Recorded meaning: (i) from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, from Hebrew Ghana, ‘he has favoured me’; (ii) ‘person from Hannethe’, an unidentified Scottish place of unknown origin; (iii) from Irish Gael…