Ann

ann ANN ann. Ann. -ann Ánn Ånn English Alternative forms en Anne Etymology 1 From en la-lat Anna chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from en grc-koi Ἄννα Anna in the New Testament, from en he חַנָּה Hannah Ḥannâ, from he חַנָּה grace, gracious, graced with child ḥannâ. Occasionally reborrowed from languages who adopted the name from English. Very infrequently from en et - abbreviation of et Anna instead. en Ana Anna Anne Hannah. Pronunciation ăn RP,GA, en /æn/ en [eən] GA,æ-tensing en en-us-Anne.ogg US en /an/ SSB,Northern England,Scotland,Wales en /æːn/ AU en /eːn/ æ-tensing en /ɛn/ NZ en æn 1 Proper noun en female Hebrew. 8 ramsden. When you say Ann, you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield. / tanner. I mean our Ann, your Ann, Tavy's Ann, and now, Heaven help me, my Ann! en 1969 Constance Urdang Natural History Harper&Row 61 Given a perfectly good American name like Ann, she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea. en 2005 w:Mary Monroe In Sheep's Clothing 129 Dafina Books 0758203446 "Her full name is Annie Lou. Like calling herself a snooty white girl name like Ann makes up for it.""Must I remind you that Ann is also my middle name?" en Stephen Collinson and Maegan Vazquez Trump’s offer of temporary protection for immigrants to end shutdown is a ‘non-starter,’ say Democrats w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/politics/house-democrats-border-security-funding-trump 2019-01-19 “Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!” said Ann Coulter on Twitter, referring to former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush. https://web.archive.org/web/20250924013708/https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/politics/house-democrats-border-security-funding-trump 24 September 2025 Usage notes Popular in English since the fourteenth century due to the medieval cult of Saint Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary. A very common middle name since the 20th century. Derived terms en Ann Arbor,Annarbour Annella Annsville Fort Ann Anson Mary Ann Maryann Royal Ann Rapid Ann Rapid Ann Station Related terms en Ana Anita Anke Anku Anna Anne Anneke Annette Annie Annika Anya Nan Nance Hannah Nancy Nannie Nanny Descendants da Ann 1 no Ann 1 ru Энн 1 sv Ann 1 tl Ann 1 Translations female given name Arabic: ar آنَّا f, ar آنّ f, ar حَنَّة f Armenian: hy Աննա Belarusian: be Га́нна f, be Эн f transliteration Bengali: bn অ্যান Breton: br Anna f Bulgarian: bg А́на f, bg Ен f transliteration Catalan: ca Anna f, ca Aina f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 安 Ān, cmn 安娜 Ānnà Coptic: cop ⲁⲛⲛⲁ Czech: cs Anna f Danish: da Anna c Dutch: nl Anna f, nl Anne f, Esperanto: eo Anno Estonian: et Anna Faroese: fo Anna f Finnish: fi Anna French: fr Anne f Galician: gl Ana f Georgian: ka ანა German: de Anna f Greek: el Άννα f Hawaiian: haw ʻAna Hebrew: he חַנָּה f khaná Hindi: hi एन f Hungarian: hu Anna Icelandic: is Anna Interlingua: ia Anna Irish: ga Áine, ga Ánna Italian: it Anna Japanese: ja アンナ Anna, ja アン An Korean: ko ^안나, ko ^안 Latin: la Anna Latvian: lv Anna f Lithuanian: lt Ona f Macedonian: mk Ана f Manx: gv Ann f Māori: mi Ani Norman: nrf Anne f Norwegian: no Anna Occitan: oc Anna f Old Nubian: onw ⲁⲛⲛⲁ unisex Persian: fa حنا hannâ, fa آنا ânnâ, fa آن ân Polish: pl Anna f Portuguese: pt Ana f Romanian: ro Ana f Russian: ru А́нна f, ru Энн f transliteration Scottish Gaelic: gd Anna f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Ана f А̏на, А́на Latin: sh Ana f Ȁna, Ána Slovak: sk Anna f Slovene: sl Ána f Spanish: es Ana f Swedish: sv Anna Thai: th แอนน์ Ukrainian: uk Га́нна f, uk Енн f transliteration Etymology 2 Habitational surname from Abbotts Ann in Hampshire, named for the stream that runs through it, which is most probably named with an ancient en cy - word meaning "ash tree stream". Compare cy onn ash tree. Proper noun s en Welsh. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Ann is the 34707th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 651 individuals. Ann is most common among White (43.47%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (43.47%) individuals. Noun en anniversary. Adjective - en annual. Further reading Anagrams en ann NAN NaN Nan nan en female given names from Estonian Danish Etymology From da en Ann. Variant of da Anna and da Anne. Proper noun da female Estonian Proper noun et proper noun et female, an old Estonian short form of et Anna Norwegian Bokmål Alternative forms nb Ane Anne Etymology nb en Ann female given name in much of its modern use; independently also an e-less Norwegian form of nb Anne, particularly in older regional usage. Both developments ultimately go back to nb la-lat Anna female given name, from nb grc-koi Ἄννα Ánna Anna, from nb hbo חַנָּה Ḥannāh Hannah; grace, favour, from nb hbo חָנַן ḥānan to be gracious, show favour.Kruken, Kristoffer and Ola Stemshaug (1995), Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget.Gulbrand Alhaug (2024), “Ann – kvinnenamn”, in Store norske leksikon. Compare da Ann and sv Ann female given name, both likewise borrowed from English. Pronunciation nb /anː/ nb anː 1 nb an and nb Ann Proper noun nb proper noun nb female English < Latin < Ancient Greek < Biblical Hebrew Ann Usage notes The Norwegian name day for nb Ann is 13 August, shared with nb Anine and nb Anny. nb Ann was already in regional use in Norway in the 19th century, particularly in Nordmøre, and reached its main nationwide popularity peak in 1965–1969. Derived terms nb Anny pet form Statistics According to Statistics Norway, 12,038 people in Norway had nb Ann as their first given name at the end of 2025.Table 10501: “Personer, etter jentenavn og guttenavn 2013–2025”, Statistics Norway. References Polish Pronunciation Proper noun pl proper noun form f pl Anna gen p Swedish Etymology From sv en Ann, first recorded as a Swedish given name in 1860. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Ann.wav Proper noun c sv female Usage notes Common first part of hyphenated names such as Ann-Marie or Ann-Kristin. References Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0 Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 34 106 females with the given name Ann living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011. Tagalog Etymology tl :bor en:Ann + 1 Pronunciation an Proper noun an tl female English Anagrams tl ann -nan Welsh Alternative forms cy Anna cy Ania cy Anita Pronunciation cy /ˈan/ Proper noun f cy female grc:Ἄννα < he:חַנָּה<t:Hana> Mutation References Heini Gruffudd https://www.swansea.ac.uk/graduation/honoraryawards/honoraryawardsarchive/honoraryawards2013/heinigruffudd/ Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Enwau_Cymraeg_i_blant/vuWhRAAACAAJ?hl=en Y Lolfa 2010 17 9781847712196