Entry № 626 · Romanian origin

Anca Anca — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHN-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Romanian
Meaning
"Grace (Romanian short)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Romanian)

A name that means "grace (romanian short)".

Anca is the Romanian short form of Ana (Anna) — meaning "grace." Anca Damian (born 1962) is the Romanian filmmaker; Anca Heltne (born 1984) is the Romanian shot putter.

Anca is widely used in Romania.

Grace. The Romanian short.

The name in its native script.

Anca
Transliteration
Anca
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːn.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anca stands.

Anca 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.

Ancas before her.

Real people
Anca Damian
Romanian filmmaker.
born 1962
In fiction
Anca
Common in Romanian fiction.

Names connected to Anca.

The number behind Anca.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anca reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.