Hannah at a glance
- Meaning
- “grace, favour”
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Pronunciation
- HAN-uh
- Nicknames
- Han, Annie
- Other forms
- Anna, Hanna, Chana
Where the name Hannah comes from
In the Old Testament, Hannah prays for a child and becomes the mother of the prophet Samuel. English Puritans started using the name in the 17th century. It reads the same backwards and forwards, and it was especially popular in the 1990s and 2000s.