Fun Facts About the Name Aana
- 23 babies named Aana: U.S. records list 23 babies given the name Aana from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Aana Mean?
Aana has two distinct established derivations. As a form of Anna, it comes from the Hebrew name Hannah (חַנָּה), traditionally understood as "favor" or "grace." As a Greenlandic feminine name, it is based on aanaq, the Greenlandic word for "mother." The two are separate in origin; their similar appearance does not make them variants of a single name.
Aana Name History & Origins
The Anna-derived name has its background in Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. The name passed into Greek as Ἄννα and into Latin as Anna; the New Testament also has a prophetess named Anna. In Christian Europe, Saint Anne, the mother of Mary, was a major association with the name. Aana occurs as a variant spelling of Anna in some European naming traditions. In Greenlandic naming, Aana is a separate name with its own development and does not descend from Anna. The resemblance between the two is only a matter of spelling.
How Popular is the Name Aana?
Aana has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2002. Its best rank was #12,189 in 2002.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | #15,542 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #13,797 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #15,909 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #12,189 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Aana Shapes Your Personality and Life?
Powerful and complete. You are good intellectually and require several outlets for your energies. You are not a builder but a planner, and you want others to carry out your plans. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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