Entry № 583 · Spanish origin

Ana Ana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Grace (the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian form of Anne)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "grace (the spanish, portuguese, italian form of anne)".

Ana is the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Croatian form of Anne / Hannah — from the Hebrew Channah ("grace, favor").

Grace (the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian form of Anne) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Ana
Transliteration
Ana
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ana stands.

Ana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Anas before her.

Real people
Ana de Armas
Cuban-Spanish Oscar-nominated actress.
born 1988
Ana Mendieta
Cuban-American performance artist.
1948 – 1985
Ana Pauker
First woman foreign minister.
1893 – 1960
In fiction
Ana
Various Latin American telenovelas.

Names connected to Ana.

The number behind Ana.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ana reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.