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 [ 2 syll. han-na, ha-nna ] The girl name Hanna is pronounced HHAENah KEY. 1: Hanna's origin is Hebrew, and its use, Dutch, English, Polish, and Scandinavian. 2: Hanna's language of origin is Arabic. The meaning here is 'congratulations, to your health'. 3: Hanna's language of origin is African-Hausa. Meaning: 'prevented, forbidden'. In addition, Hanna is a variant form of the English Jane in the Dutch, Finnish, German, and Scandinavian languages. Hanna is also a variant form of the Czech, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, Slavic, Spanish, Breton, Catalan, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, and French Anna in the Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Latvian, Polish, Scandinavian, and Ukrainian languages. See also the related form, Hannah (English, French, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish). Hanna is a rather popular baby girl name. The name's popularity increased from the 1980s up to the 1990s. Its usage peaked modestly in 1998 with 0.098% of baby girls being named Hanna. It was #165 in rank then. The baby name has experienced a drop in popularity since then. In 2008, it ranked at #367 with a usage of 0.043%, but it was nevertheless the 3rd most popular after Hannah (English, French, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish) and Anna (Czech, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, Slavic, Spanish, Breton, Catalan, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, and French), among all girl names in its family. It was 11 times more commonly used than Hanna in 2008. Baby names that sound like Hanna include Hana (Czech, English, Polish, Slavic, Yiddish, and Japanese), Hanah (English), Hannah (English, French, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish), Hajna (Hungarian), Hama, Hanae (Japanese), Hanan (Arabic), Hani (Finnish), Hanni (English, Finnish, and German), Hannie (English and Dutch), Hanny (English), Hemma (German), Hena (Yiddish), Henie (English), Henna (Finnish), Henny (Dutch, English, and German), Honey (English), Hyun (Korean), Jaima (English), and Jaime (English). KEY: English pronunciation for Hanna: HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
