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Ana - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Ana
 
 

 



[ 2 syll. a-na, an-a ] The girl name Ana is pronounced AANah or AENah KEY. Ana is of Hebrew origin, and it is used mainly in the Portuguese and Spanish languages. Ana is a variant of Anna (Hebrew, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, and Slavic). See also the related forms, Analia (Portuguese) and Luana (English and Italian).

Ana is popular as a baby name for girls. The name's popularity rose from the 1910s up to the 1990s. At the modest height of its usage in 1991, 0.130% of baby girls were given the name Ana. Its ranking then was #119. The baby name has since experienced a decline in popularity. In 2007, it ranked at #162 with a usage of 0.105%. Within the group of girl names directly linked to Ana, Anna (Hebrew, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, and Slavic) was the most commonly used. Its use outnumbered Ana's by 4 times in 2007.

Baby names that sound like Ana include Anna (Hebrew, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, and Slavic), Annah (English), Aine (Irish), Aman (Arabic), Ami (English), Amie (English), Ammie (English), Amye (English), Anais (French), Anaïs (French), Annie (English), Anny (Polish), Anu (Estonian and Finnish), Ayanna (English), Iman (Arabic), Ona (Lithuanian), Aamina (Arabic), Ainhoa (Basque and Spanish), Aiyana (English), Allonia (English), Amaia (Basque and Spanish), Amani (Arabic), Amaya (Basque), Ameena (Arabic), Amiee (English), Amina (Arabic), Aminah (Arabic), Amya (English), Anahi (Spanish), Ane (Scandinavian), Anina (Czech and Italian), Aniya (English), Aniyah (English), Ann (English), Anne (English, French, and German), Anniina (Finnish), Annina (German), Aune (Finnish), Imani (English), Ioana (Romanian and Slavic), Iona (English and Scottish), Unn (Scandinavian), Henoheno (Hawaiian), and Ioanna (Greek).

KEY: English pronunciation for Ana: AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"


Details of famous persons named Ana:
Model Ana Beatriz Barros, born 29 May 1982, Itabira, Brazil.
Model Ana Hickmann, Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil.
Model Ana Claudia Michels, born 31 July 1981, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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