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Hanna

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latin spelling of the Hebrew name חַנָּה (Channah) = 'mercy', 'favour' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

2) Short form of Johanna [1] [2] [3] [4] [9]

3) Female form of Hans

Related Names

Hana ♀
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Háne ♀
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 Greenlandic
Hanka ♀
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Hanna ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Hánna ♀
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 Sami
Hánná ♀
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 Sami
Hannah ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Hanne ♀
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Hanni ♀
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Hannie ♀
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Hannukka ♀
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Hannuli ♀
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Hanny ♀
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Hanný ♀
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 Icelandic

See also Anna, Handine, Hannele, Hanniken

Combinations

For combinations see HANN (name element)

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Hannuson Faroe Islands
Honnuson Faroe Islands
Hönnuson Iceland

Female

Hannudóttir Faroe Islands
Honnudóttir Faroe Islands
Hönnudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Hanna
Genitive: Hannas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Hanna
Accusative: Hannu / Honnu
Dative: Hannu / Honnu
Genitive: Hannu / Honnu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Hanna
Genitive: Hannan
Partitive: Hannaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Hanna
Accusative: Hönnu
Dative: Hönnu
Genitive: Hönnu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Hanna
Genitive: Hannas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Hanna
Genitive: Hannas

Name Days

Finland Finland

21 July

Norway Norway

5 January

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

21 July

Sweden Sweden

5 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • In the Old Testament, Hanna is the name of Samuel's mother

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 20,022 people were named Hanna (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [12]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[14]
32553 51813 32142 50808 411 1005
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
 33520
n.a.
 33514
n.a.
 6
Denmark Denmark[16]
2350
n.a.
 2343
n.a.
 7
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[17]
798 1058
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[18]
6 37
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[19]
7384
n.a.
 7376
n.a.
 8
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Hanna (f) Sources: [14][16][19][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Hanna (f) Sources: [20]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Hanna (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Hanna (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Hanna (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  17. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  20. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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