Anna

Anna can refer to a variety of people, objects, and ideas. Anna or Anne or Ann or Annie or Annette is a very popular given name. Other variants are Nanynka (Czech), Nan, Nana (Czech), Nanny, Nancy, Nanci, Hanci, Channa, Anci, Anic, Handa, Nanda (Czech), Anneke (Dutch), Anninka, Annick, Anita, Anitra, Hana, Chana (Jewish), Hanka, Anka, Anca, Anya (Russian), Ania, Anni (German), Ania, Anka, Aniulka, Aniula, Andzia, Anusia, Annusia, Annuśka, Aneczka, Niunia (Polish), Nanka.

Names

• Anna: A Latin form of Hannah, which derives from the Hebrew name Channah which means "grace" or "favour."
• Anne: A female given name which is a form of Anna.
• Ana: The Spanish and Portuguese version of this name.
• Anne is also a family name (Surname) in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• Hanne, Hanna, and Hannah are female given names.
• C. N. Annadurai is referred to as Anna by his followers.
• Anneliese is a combination of Anne and Elizabeth. [1]

Objects

• Anna potatoes
• Anne (Buffy episode), an episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• Anna, an old Indian currency unit, and a coin - 16 Annas = 1 Rupee.
• Anna, a 1952 Alberto Lattuada movie with Silvana Mangano, the first Italian film dubbed in English language after World War II.
• Anna, a 1987 film.
• Anna dog, the only animal with a portrait at Johns Hopkins University.
• Anna (Go To Him), a song originally composed and recorded in 1962 by R&B singer Arthur Alexander. It was quickly covered by The Beatles in 1963 for their albums Please Please Me (UK) and Introducing... The Beatles (USA).
• Anna, a song from Bad Company's 1975 album, Straight Shooter.
• Anna, a Finnish women's magazine published by Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet.
• Anna's biscuit, a Swedish ginger biscuit.
• Anna Miller's, restaurants in Hawaii and Tokyo.
• Anne, a song by John Frusciante, from his 2005 album Curtains.
• Boten Anna, a song about an Irc bot by Jonas Altberg.

Eras

• Anna, a Japanese era

Places

• Anna Miller's, a restaurant chain

People

Anna or Anne or Ann is a popular given name. It is derived from the Hebrew name "Hannah" which means grace, charm, mercy. The name's popularity in its different forms in many countries is well deserved given its biblical traditions. There are a number of people whose first name and the most significant name was Anna or Anne:

• Anna was the sister of Dido in Roman mythology and later literature. Ovid identified her with Anna Perenna in one account.
• Anna is an alternate name for Morgause of Arthurian legend.
• Anna Perenna, the Roman goddess.
• Saint Anne (or Santa Ana), known by tradition as the mother of The Virgin Mary, and grandmother of Jesus.
• Anna, from the Gospel of Luke 2:36, a "prophetess", "daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher".
• Anna, a king of East Anglia.
• Anna or Anne was the name of numerous queens, see Queen Anne.
• Anneliese Frank, commonly known as "Anne Frank", Holocaust-era diarist.
• Anna Kournikova, a professional Tennis player.
• Ana Johnsson, a Swedish singer.
• Lee Ann Meriwether, American actress who was Miss America 1955.
• Anna Nagata, Japanese actress.
• Anna Nakagawa (real name Anna Kuriyama), Japanese actress
• Anna Ohura, Japanese adult model
• Anna Olson, pastry chef and TV show host.
• Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist.
• Anna Popplewell, an English actress known for the role of Susan in the Narnia chronicles.
• Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States who always went by Eleanor. Her real first name is Anna.
• Anna Roosevelt, daughter of former U.S. President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• Anna Svidersky, an American murder victim
• Anna Umemiya, a Japanese celebrity
• Anna Vissi, a Greek singer.
• Anna G., an actress and comedian from Pennsylvania
• Anna Wierzbicka, a Polish author

Variants

• Annetta, Annina, Italian diminutives.
• Anita, Spanish hypocoristic.
• Anya, Annushka in Russian.
• Panka, Ancsa in Hungarian.
• Ana, Anica in Serbian.
• Anja in the Nordic languages.

Saint Anna

The form "Saint Anna" (Santa Ana in Spanish, sometimes Santana) is also used in names, for example for Antonio López de Santa Anna, a Mexican soldier-statesman.

Pseudonyms

• The codename of Alfred Frenzel, a Czechoslovakian spy.
• Annadurai, famous South Indian leader.

Fictional characters

• Anna or Ti'ana, a fictional character in the Myst games.
• Anna Kyōyama, a fictional character that appeared in Butsu Zone, Itako no Anna, and Shaman King.
• Anne Shirley is a fictional character of the works Anne of Green Gables amongst others, and is very popular in Japan.
• Anna is the main character in the book "Woman in the Wall" by Patrice Kindl.
• Anna is the main character in the book Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn.
• Anna Karenina is the main character in a novel with the same name by Leo Tolstoy.
• Anna Roma is a comic character in the Anna's Incense comic series Li'l Anna Roma.
• Ann Darrow, girl with whom Kong fell in love in the movie King Kong.
• Anne of Little Britain.
• Anna Williams is a character from the Tekken series.
• Anna is the fiance of Yoh in the manga, Shaman King.
• Anna Percy is a fictional character from the book series The a-list by Zoey Dean
• Anna .V. is a beautiful cake maker from london, that appears in many alternative comics, especially famous in Japan.

Locations

• Anna (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
• Anna, municipality in Canal de Navarrés, Valencia, Spain

Groups

• Anna or Arabana tribe Australian Aborigines.

Acronyms

• ANN can refer to an Artificial Neural Network.
• ANN can also refer to the Anime News Network.

Meanings

Anne or Ana (both are correct) means mother in Turkic languages. Anna or Ana means elder brother in Kannada, an Indian language.

See also

• Ana