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The hanna Surname

hanna Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (especially northeastern Ulster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAnnaigh ‘descendant of Annach’, a byname of uncertain meaning.
  2. English: from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, ultimately from Hebrew Chana ‘He (God) has favored me’ (i.e. with a child). The name is borne in the Bible by the mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 1: 1–28), and there is a tradition (unsupported by Biblical evidence) that it was the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary; this St. Anne was a popular figure in medieval art and legend.
  3. Scottish: variant of Hannay.
  4. German: from a pet form of the personal name Hans.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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hanna Family Facts

Distribution of hanna Families in the US in 1920
Number of hanna families
 251-500
 84-250		 1-83
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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