Anna

Borrowed from English Anna.

Anna

1. (chess) Spoken by a player during a match with one or more visually impaired players to indicate the a-file in algebraic notation.

• FIDE Laws of Chess 2023

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

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• Rhymes: -ænə

From Late Latin Anna both directly and via numerous other languages, chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anne the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a city in Illinois, named for Anna Davie, wife of one of the initial settlers. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Ana, and Hannah.

Anna (plural Annas)

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • c. 1886 William 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, published 2014, →ISBN, page 189:

     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, published 1987, →ISBN, page 183:

     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 like Anna. They go on forever. You can live with a name like that."

   • 2018 April 23, Chuck Johnston, “Judge not allowed back to court after berating woman who died”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Anna Twiggs bailed her sister out of jail Monday evening. She said she found her sister dead in her bed Wednesday morning.

2. A prophetess in the New Testament.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:36:

     And there was one Anna, 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. A city in Illinois.
4. A city in Texas.
5. A town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
6. A village in Järva, Estonia.
7. A village in Fars Province, Iran.
8. A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.
9. A village in Ohio; after Anna Thirkield, an early settler.
10. A municipality of the Valencian 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 the Virgin Mary.
• Anna is periodically popular in the English-speaking world as a Latinate variant of Ann/Anne.

• → Chinese: 安娜 (Ānnà)

Anna

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, 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 female given name, equivalent to English Ann

• IPA^(key): [ˈana]

Anna f (relational adjective Annin)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

Anna

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
2. Anna (Biblical prophetess)

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

• → Greenlandic: Anna

• [2] 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.

From Middle Dutch Anna, from Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.naː/

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• Hyphenation: An‧na

Anna f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
2. Anna (Biblical prophetess)

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

Anna

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

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

From Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה (ḥannâ).

Anna f (genitive singular Onnu or Annu)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

Matronymics

• Anna's son: Onnuson or Annuson
• Anna's daughter: Onnudóttir or Annudóttir

singular indefinite nominative Anna accusative Onnu dative Onnu genitive Onnu

singular indefinite nominative Anna accusative Annu dative Annu genitive Annu

From Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Biblical Hebrew חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious”), commonly in reference to Saint Anne.^[1]

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

Anna

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
   • 1870, Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 14:

     Aviona oli hänellä Seunalan hoikka tytär, liinatukkainen, kainosilmäinen Anna, 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 a kiiltokuva. 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, as annas echoed throughout the yard.

   • 2010, Ilkka Raitasuo - Terhi Siltala, Kellokosken prinsessa, Like Kustannus Oy, →ISBN, page 211:

     Eräänä Annan 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 piti Annaa hieman rahvaanomaisena ja vanhahtavana etunimenä.

     On one Anna'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 of Anna as a rather folksy and old-fashioned name.

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

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

     And there was one Anna, 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 as Anna-Liisa and Anna-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 28,014 female individuals (and as a middle name to 17,458 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Nana, naan

A Latinate variant of French Anne, from Ἄννα (Ánna), equal to the Hebrew female name חַנָּה (ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Anna.

• IPA^(key): /a.na/

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Anna f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

• nana

From Latin Anna, which see.

• IPA^(key): /ˈana/, [ˈʔa.na]

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Anna f (genitive Annas or (with an article) Anna)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

• (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 from Danish Anna.

Anna

1. a female given name from Danish, equivalent to English Ann
2. Anna (biblical)

• Aani
• Anni

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒnːɒ]

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• Rhymes: -nɒ
• Hyphenation: An‧na

Anna

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה (ḥannâ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈanːa/

• Rhymes: -anːa
• Homophone: anna
• Hyphenation: An‧na

Anna f (proper noun, genitive singular Önnu)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

From Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Biblical Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ).

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

Anna f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
2. Hannah (Biblical mother of Samuel)
3. Anna (Biblical prophetess)

• Annina, Nina

• nana

Anna

1. Rōmaji transcription of アンナ

From Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Biblical Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ).

• Anna:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈan.na]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan.na]
• Annā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈan.naː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan.na]
• Hyphenation: An‧na

Anna f sg (genitive Annae); first declension

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

First-declension noun, singular only.

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1454. From Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), equal to the Hebrew female name חַנָּה (ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Ann.

Anna f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
2. a transliteration of the Russian female given name А́нна (Ánna)
3. a respelling of the English female given name Ann
4. a respelling of the English or French female given name Anne

• Ance, Anete, Anita, Annija, Enija

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [4] 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 Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), equal to the Hebrew female name חַנָּה (ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Ann.

Anna

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
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
• [5] 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 female given name

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

Learned borrowing from Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה (ḥannâ). Doublet of Hanna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.na/

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• Rhymes: -anna
• Syllabification: An‧na

Anna f (diminutive Andzia or Aneczka or Ania or Anka or Anula or Anusia)

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

   Miała na imię Anna i pochodziła ze Świnoujścia. ― Her name was Anna and she came from Świnoujście.

• “Anna”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

Anna f

1. a female given name, variant of Ana

From Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Biblical Hebrew חַנָּה (ḥannâ, literally “grace, gracious”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈan̪ˠa/, /ˈan̪ˠə/

Anna f (diminutive Annag)

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Ann

• IPA^(key): /anːa/, [ˈanːa]
• Rhymes: -anːa
• Hyphenation: An‧na

Anna f (genitive singular Anny, nominative plural Anny, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

• “Anna”, in Slovníkový 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, 2003–2026

First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1291. Inherited from Old Swedish Anna, from Vulgar Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), equal to the Hebrew female name חַנָּה (ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Ann.

• IPA^(key): /²ana/

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Anna c (genitive Annas)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
   • 1994, Marianne Fredriksson, Anna, Hanna och Johanna [Anna, Hanna and Johanna], Wahlström & Widstrand, published 2001, →ISBN, page 259:

     Då mindes jag Anna, den ljusa människan. Och så sa jag utan att ha tänkt att jag ville kalla flickan Anna. 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.

     Then I remembered Ann, that bright person. And so without thinking I said that I wanted to call the girl Ann. Mother was pleased, I could see that, but she said I had to talk to Arne first.
     He thought the name was old-fashioned and sturdy. He was glad it wasn't in the family.

• 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
• [7] 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

From Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Biblical Hebrew חַנָּה (ḥannâ, literally “grace, gracious”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈana/

Anna f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna) [in turn from Hebrew חַנָּה (“Hana”)]
2. Wife or mother of Beli Mawr.
3. Saint Anne

• Annalyn

Heini Gruffudd (2010), Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children‎^[8], Y Lolfa, →ISBN, page 17