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This article is about the female name of Hebrew origin. For the male Arabic name, see
Hanna (Arabic name) .
Hannah
Samuel Dedicated by Hannah at the Temple by Frank W.W. Topham
Gender Female Language(s)
Hebrew Meaning Favour Related names
Chana
Hana
Hanna
Hanah
Anne
Anna
Ana
Hannah spelled Hanna ,
Hana , Hanah , or Chana , is a feminine
given name of Hebrew origin. It is derived from the
root ḥ-n-n , meaning "favour" or "grace".
A Dictionary of First Names attributes the name to a word meaning 'He (God) has favoured me with a child'.
Anne ,
Ana , Ann , and other variants of the name derive from the Hellenized Hebrew:
Anna (Ἅννα )
The
Phoenician (
Punic ) name
Hannibal derives from the same
Canaanite
root and means "My grace is
Baal ".
[1] In the
Books of Samuel of the Hebrew Bible,
Hannah is the mother of the prophet
Samuel .
Hannah Caroline Aase (1883–1980), American botanist and cytologist
Hannah Adams (1755–1831), American author
Hannah Afriyie (born 1951), Ghanaian sprinter
Hannah Aitchison (born 1966), American tattoo artist
Hannah Al Rashid (born 1986), British actress, model and activist of Indonesian descent
Hannah Alcorn (born 1990), American voice actress
Hannah Aldworth (died 1778), English philanthropist
Hannah Allam (born 1977), Egyptian-American journalist and reporter
Hannah Allen (1638–1668x1708), British writer
Hannah Alligood , American actress
Hannah Alper , Canadian activist
Hannah Altman , American photographer
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German philosopher
Hannah Arnold (born 1996), Filipina beauty pageant titleholder
Hannah Arterton (born 1989), British actor and singer
Hannah Atkins (1923–2010), American politician
Hannah Auchentaller (born 2001), Italian biathlete
Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo (1915–2015), Nigerian businesswoman and politician
Hannah Johnston Bailey (1839–1923), American Quaker teacher, activist and advocate
Hannah Baker , English cricketer
Hannah Ball (1734–1792), English Wesleyan methodist
Hannah Baptiste , Guyanese footballer
Hannah Bardell (born 1983), Scottish politician
Hannah Connell Barker (1844–1918), American businesswoman
Hannah Barnes (born 1993), British cyclist
Hannah Barnett-Trager (1870–1943), English writer and activist
Hannah Bast , German computer scientist
Hannah Bat Shahar (born 1944), Israeli writer
Hannah Battersby , American sideshow performer
Hannah Beachler (born 1970), American production designer
Hannah Beard (born 1988), English footballer
Hannah Beazley (born 1979), Australian politician
Hannah Beckerman , English author and journalist
Hannah Beech , American journalist
Hannah Bell (born 1969), Canadian politician
Hannah Benka-Coker (1903–1952), Sierra Leone-born educator
Hannah Bergstedt (born 1977), Swedish politician
Hannah Berry , British comics artist and writer
Hannah Betfort , American soccer player
Hannah Bilka , American ice hockey player
Hannah Billig (1901–1987), English medical doctor
Hannah Black , British artist
Hannah Blake (born 2000), English-born New Zealand footballer
Hannah Blank (born 1930), American author
Hannah Blilie (born 1981), American musician
Hannah Blore , Welsh sailor
Hannah Blundell (born 1994), English professional footballer
Hannah Blythyn (born 1979), Welsh Labour politician and Member of the Senedd for Delyn
Hannah Boleyn , British singer songwriter
Hannah Borden Palmer (1843–1940), American temperance reformer
Hannah Botha (1923–2007), South African actress
Hannah Botterman (born 1999), england international rugby union player
Hannah Bowley (born 1984), Australian basketball player
Hannah Brackenbury (1795–1873), English philanthropist
Hannah Brand (1754–1821), English actress, poet and playwright
Hannah Brandt (born 1993), American ice hockey player
Hannah Brewer (born 1993), Australian soccer player
Hannah Brier (born 1998), British sprinter
Hannah Britland (born 1990), British actress and model
Hannah Broederlow (born 1988), New Zealand netball player
Hannah Bromley (born 1986), New Zealand footballer
Hannah Bronfman (born 1987), American DJ, influencer, and entrepreneur
Hannah Brown (born 1994), American television personality and model
Hannah Brown (born 1990), British canoeist
Hannah Brown Skeele (1829–1901), American painter
Hannah Brückner (born 1958), American sociologist
Hannah Buckley , New Zealand ecologist
Hannah Buckling (born 1992), Australian water polo center back
Hannah Burchell (born 1995), Australian rules footballer
Hannah Burdon (1800–1877), English novelist
Hannah Burke (born 1988), English golfer
Hannah Burkhill , Australian synchronized swimmer
Hannah Button (born 1996), Australian rules footballer
Hannah L. Buxbaum , American academic administrator
Hannah Cain (born 1999), Wales international footballer
Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671–1727), second wife of William Penn
Hannah Calvert , South African water polo player
Hannah Campbell-Pegg (born 1982), Australian luger
Hannah Casey (born 1988), Irish rugby union player
Hannah Chadwick , American Paralympic cyclist
Hannah Chaplin (1865–1928), English actress, singer and dancer
Hannah Chapman Backhouse (1787–1850), English diarist and Quaker minister
Hannah Cheesman (born 1984), Canadian actress and filmmaker
Hannah B. Chickering (1817–1879), American prison reformer
Hannah Chukwu (born 2003), Hungarian squash player
Hannah Cifers (born 1992), American mixed martial arts fighter
Hannah Claesson (born 1991), Swedish footballer
Hannah Clark (born 1990), English cricketer
Hannah Clarke (1988–2020), Australian sportsperson and murder victim
Hannah Claus (born 1969), indigenous Canadian visual artist
Hannah Claydon (born 1986), English glamour model
Hannah Clayson Smith , American lawyer
Hannah Cloke , British hydrologist
Hannah Clothier Hull (1872–1958), American club woman, feminist and pacifist
Hannah Clowes (born 1991), British artistic gymnast
Hannah Cobb , archaeologist
Hannah Cockroft (born 1992), British wheelchair racer
Hannah Cohen , multiple people
Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), American painter
Hannah Collin (born 1982), English tennis player
Hannah Collins , British contemporary artist and filmmaker
Hannah Conda , drag performer
Hannah Cooper (born 1979), Liberian hurdler
Hannah Cotter , New Zealand field hockey player
Hannah Cotton , Israeli classics professor and historian
Hannah Cowley , multiple people
Hannah Crafts , American writer and escaped slave
Hannah Craig (born 1983), Irish canoe slalom racer
Hannah Critchlow (born 1980), British scientist, writer and broadcaster
Hannah Cross , multiple people
Hannah Cullum-Sanders , Australian field hockey player
Hannah Cullwick (1833–1909), English diarist
Hannah Cunliffe (born 1996), American athlete
Hannah Dodd (born 1992), Australian female equestrian Paralympic
Hannah Dodd (born 1995), English actress
Hannah Dreier , American journalist
Hannah Duston (1657–c. 1736), Indian fighter
Hannah Bachman Einstein (1862–1929), American child welfare activist
Hannah Elias (born c. 1865), American business woman
Hannah Elizabeth (born 1990), English model and television personality
Hannah England (born 1987), British middle-distance running athlete
Hannah Dakota Fanning (born 1994), American actress, known as Dakota Fanning
Hannah Tobey Farmer (1823-1891), American philanthropist, writer, and social reformer
Hannah Ferguson (born 1992), American model
Hannah Fidell (born 1985), American film director, producer and screenwriter
Hannah Foster (1985–2003), British murder victim
Hannah Friedman (born 1986), American writer, director, and musician
Hannah Fry (born 1984), British mathematician
Hannah Gadsby (born 1978), Australian comedian
Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), English cookbook writer
Hannah Godwin (born 1995), American television personality, model and YouTuber
Hannah Gordon (born 1941), Scottish actress
Hannah Flagg Gould (1789–1864), American poet
Hannah Simpson Grant (1798–1883), mother of president Ulysses S. Grant
Hannah Green (born 1996), Australian professional golfer
Hannah Gross (born 1992), Canadian actress
Hannah Hart (born 1986), American internet personality, comedian, actress and author
Hannah Hampton (born 2000), English professional footballer
Hannah Hauxwell (1926–2018), Yorkshire Dales farmer
Hannah Herzsprung (born 1981), German actress
Hannah Höch (1889–1978), German Dada artist
Hannah Hodson (born 1991), American actress, journalist
Hannah Ild (born 1981), Estonian singer
Hannah Jeter (born 1990), American model and television host
Hannah Jones , multiple people
Hannah Kallem (1865–1937), Norwegian-born American army nurse
Hannah Kearney (born 1986), American mogul skier
Hannah T. King (1808–1886), British-American writer, pioneer
Hannah Klugman (born 2009), British professional tennis player
Hannah Kudjoe (1918–1986), Ghanaian activist
Hannah Harrison Ludwell Lee (1701–1750), American colonial heiress
Hannah Higgins (born 1964), American writer and academic
Hannah Lowe (born 1976), British writer
Hannah Lyman (1816–1871), American educator, biographer
Hannah Mancini (born 1980), American-Slovenian singer
Hannah Marks (born 1993), American actress, writer
Hannah Meul (born 2001), German rock climber
Hannah Miley (born 1989), Scottish swimmer
Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956), English suffragette and socialist
Hannah More (1745–1833), English religious writer and philanthropist
Hannah Moscovitch (born 1978), Canadian playwright
Hannah Milhous Nixon (1885–1967), mother of U.S. president Richard Nixon
Hannah Miller (born 1996), American figure skater
Hannah Mills (born 1988), British competitive sailor
Hannah Ama Nyarko , Ghana politician
Hannah Pfalzgraf (born 1997), Swiss politician
Hannah Maynard Pickard (1812–1844), American school teacher, preceptress, author
Hannah Primrose (1851–1890), Countess of Rosebery
Hannah Murray (born 1989), English actress
Hannah Maynard (1834–1918), Canadian photographer
Hannah New (born 1984), English actress
Hannah Newhouse (born 1997), American professional stock car racing driver and reporter
Hannah Pingree (born 1976), majority leader and Speaker of the House in the
Maine House of Representatives
Hannah Cope Plimpton , American educator and relief worker
Hannah Pritchard (1711–1768), English actress
Hannah Quinlivan (born 1993), Taiwanese actress and model
Hannah Reid (born 1989), English singer of London Grammar
Hannah Reynolds (soccer) (born 1998), American soccer player
Hannah Rigby (c.1794–1853), Australian convict
Hannah Roberts (born 2001), American BMX freestyle cyclist
Hannah Robertson (1724—?) Scottish autobiographer, instructional writer, and teacher
Hannah Robinson , British songwriter
Hannah Rueben (born 1994), Nigerian wrestler
Hannah Semer (1925–2003), Israeli journalist
Hannah Simone (born 1980), Canadian actress, television host, and model
Hannah Ann Sluss , American television personality
Hannah Clayson Smith , American attorney
Hannah Snell (1723–1792), British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier
Hannah Spearritt (born 1981), English singer and actress
Hannah Stockbauer (born 1982), German swimmer
Hannah Stocking (born 1992), American internet personality, comedian, model and actress
Hannah Storm (born 1962), American co-host of The Early Show
Hannah Stuelke (born c. 2004), American basketball player
Hannah Bluma Sultz , Lithuanian Hebrew poet
Hannah Swarton (1651–1708), New England colonial pioneer
Hannah Szenes (1921–1944), Hungarian Jew arrested during the Second World War
Hannah Tan (born 1981), Malaysian singer-songwriter
Hannah Taylor-Gordon (born 1987) English actress, Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Hannah Teter (born 1987), American snowboarder
Hannah Tompkins (1920–1995), American artist
Hannah Tointon (born 1987), British actress
Hannah Twynnoy (1669/70–1703), first British person killed by a tiger
Hannah Tyrrell (born 1990), Irish rugby player
Hannah Van Buren (1783–1819), wife of the 8th president of the US, Martin Van Buren
Hannah van der Westhuysen (born 1995), British actress
Hannah Vogt (1910–1994), German historian
Hannah Waddingham (born 1974), English actress
Hannah Wants (born 1986), British DJ and producer
Hannah Ware (born 1982), English actress
Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840), American novelist
Hannah Weiner (1928–1997), American poet
Hannah Whelan (born 1992), British gymnast
Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), American lay speaker and author during the Holiness movement
Hannah Widell (born 1975), Swedish television presenter and media-personality
Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), American painter, sculptor and photographer
Hannah Wilson (born 1989), Hong Kong swimmer
Hannah Witton (born 1992), English YouTuber and writer
Hannah Wood (born 1983), American poet and actress
Hannah Amelia Wright (1836–1924), American physician
Hannah P. Yang , American cancer epidemiologist
Hannah Yeoh (born 1979), Malaysian politician and lawyer
Hannah , Australian pop singer
Hannah in
Arrival
Hannah Abbott , character in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Hannah Asher, a character portrayed by
Jessy Schram in the medical drama
Chicago Med .
Hannah Baxter , semi-fictional character and protagonist of the British television series
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Hannah Phillips, Sid's younger sister in the 1995 3D computer-animated film
Toy Story .
Hannah Ashworth , character portrayed by Emma Rigby on the English soap opera
Hollyoaks
Hannah Baker , a character in the novel and Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
Hannah Fleishman, character in the book
Fleishman Is in Trouble and the
TV adaptation . She is portrayed in the TV series by Meara Mahoney Gross.
Hannah Grosse in
The Haunting of Bly Manor . She is portrayed by
T'Nia Miller .
Hannah Kahnwald,a character in the German Netflix series
Dark portrayed by
Maja Schöne and Ella Lee,respectively.
Hannah McKay , character portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski on the Showtime TV series
Dexter
Hannah Martin , character portrayed by Rebecca Ritters on the Australian soap opera
Neighbours
Hannah Montana , alter ego of Miley Cyrus' character
Miley Stewart in the television show of the same name
Hannah Osborne , fictional character in
Hollyoaks
Hannah Osborne , fictional character in
The Handmaid's Tale
Hannah Swanson , a.k.a. Hina Midorikawa, character in the anime series
Glitter Force
Hannah Wells in
American Horror Story: NYC . She is portrayed by
Billie Lourd .
Hannah Whitehouse , a.k.a. Honoka Yukishiro, co-protagonist of the Toei anime Futari wa Pretty Cure
Hannah Wilson , fictional character from the Australian
soap opera ,
Home and Away
Hanna Alström (born 1981), Swedish actress
Hanna Arsenych-Baran (1970–2021), Ukrainian writer of prose, novels and poetry
Hanna Barysiewicz (1888–2007), the oldest female resident of
Belarus not registered by the
Guinness Book of Records .
Hanna Borysivna Korsun, known professionally as
Maruv , is a Ukrainian singer
Hanna Brooman (1809–1887), Swedish composer, translator and educator
Hanna Fahl (born 1978), Swedish music journalist and translator
Hanna Granfelt (1884–1952), Finnish opera singer
Hanna Grönvall (1879–1953), Swedish politician
Hanna Hall (born 1984), American actress
Hanna Hammarström (1829–1909), Swedish inventor
Hanna Hermansson (born 1989), Swedish runner
Hanna Hipp , Polish lyric mezzo-soprano
Hanna Holborn Gray (born 1930), American historian and professor
Hanna Jaff (born 1986), American born Mexican-Kurd politician, philanthropist, human rights activist, and author
Hanna Jaltner (born 1976), Swedish breaststroke swimmer
Hanna Karasiova (born 1978), Belarusian archer
Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (born 1989), Israeli triple jumper and long jumper
Hanna Lindberg (1865–1951), Swedish politician, first woman on a communal council (1910)
Hanna Ljungberg (born 1979), Swedish soccer player
Hanna Marie Barker (born 1996), American soccer player
Hanna Maron (1923–2014), Israeli actress
Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), German-born mathematician
Hanna Newcombe (1922–2011), Canadian peace activist
Hanna Pakarinen (born 1981), Finnish pop singer
Hanna van Recklinghausen (1332–?), Dutch banker
Hanna von Pestalozza (1867–1963), German writer
Hanna Reitsch (1912–1979), German test pilot
Hanna Rieber (1927–2014), Romanian-born Israeli actress
Hanna Rovina (1892–1980), Israeli actress and original "First Lady of Hebrew Theatre"
Hanna Scheuring (born 1965), Swiss actress and theatre director
Hanna Schygulla (born 1943), German actress and singer
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (1877–1946), Irish feminist, wife of
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
Hanna Stadnik (1929–2020), Polish activist
Hanna Styrell (1842–1904), Swedish actress
Hanna Suchocka (born 1946), Prime Minister of Poland from 1992–1993
Hanna Wolf (1908–1999), East German historian and politician
Hanna Yablonska (1981–2011), Ukrainian playwright and poet