Anna

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Anna or Anne or Ann is a popular given name. It is derived from the Hebrew name "Hannah" which means grace, charm, mercy. The word is also a feminine form of the Latin word for "year".

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1 People

2 Variants

2.1 Saint Anna
2.2 Pseudonyms
2.3 Fictional characters
2.4 Groups

3 Things

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People

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, including:
- Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom
- Queen Anne of Brittany
- Queen Consort Anna of Austria
- Empress Anna of Russia
Anna Marek (Anna), a Polish porn star

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Variants

Anita, Spanish hypocoristic
Anya or Anushka in Russian

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Saint Anna

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

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Pseudonyms

the codename of Alfred Frenzel, a Czechoslovakian spy
Annadurai, famous South Indian leader

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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 Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn.
Anna Karenina is the main character in a novel with the same name by Leo Tolstoy.

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Groups

Anna or Arabana tribe Australian Aborigines

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Things

Anna, a 1987 film
Anna dog, the only animal with a portrait at Johns Hopkins University
Anna, an Indian coin issued in 1910
Anna potatoes
Anna, a song off Bad Company's 1975 album, Straight Shooter
Anna, a Finnish women's magazine published by Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet

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Places

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