Hana is a modern spelling of Hannah, which means ‘favor, grace’. It was derived from the Hebrew name Channah. But Hana has other meanings as well: In Persian, it means ‘flower’, in Arabic ‘bliss’ and in Hawaiian ‘work’ for example.
Hana is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Hana isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Hana ranks 716. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Hana. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hana.
Hana is a modern spelling of Hannah, which means ‘favor, grace’. It was derived from the Hebrew name Channah. But Hana has other meanings as well: In Persian, it means ‘flower’, in Arabic ‘bliss’ and in Hawaiian ‘work’ for example.
In the 20th century,... Hana was especially popular in the Czech Republic.
Hana is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Hana cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #592 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2002. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Hana, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Hana seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
402 babies were named Hana in 2022 - that's 1 in 368,736 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Hana ranked 661 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Hana is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.
If your name is Hana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hana, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hana
Hana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
A
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Hana sounds like this:
