Hana is one of the most multilingual girl names in use.
Four origins, four meanings, all gentle and bright. Hana has been used in each of these traditions for centuries. Its rising use in the West is a recent phenomenon, helped by its short, internationally pronounceable form and its appearance in popular media (Hana Yori Dango, Hana Kimura).
Hana 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hana reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.