Hana is a girl's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “favour.” In 2024 it was given to 395 girls in the United States.
Hana at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Biblical & Christian
Meaning
“favour”
About the name Hana
Hana belongs to the Biblical & Christian tradition. Its meaning — “favour” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Hana first appears in Social Security records in 1912. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #621 in 2002, and in 2024 395 babies received the name — 12,568 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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