Given name & surname · Biblical Hebrew · Hebrew · Yiddish
חנה
“merciful, gracious, compassionate”
חנה (ḥaná) is a feminine given name. It is used in Hebrew and Yiddish.
Biblical Hebrew and Hebrew and YiddishWritten in Hebrew script, read right to left. In English: Grace.
Meaning & origin
What it means
חנה goes back to a word meaning “merciful, gracious, compassionate.”
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חנה’s family of names
In Yiddish usage, חנה has a diminutive in חנהלע. In Yiddish usage, חנה has a conventional equivalent in the English form Hannah. In Yiddish usage, חנה has a conventional equivalent in the English form Grace.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
חנה has relatives in 3 languages.
5 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named חנה
- Hannah HamptonEnglish footballer (born 2000)
- Hannah StockingAmerican Internet personalityborn 1992
- Hannah ForsterGambian human rights activist (195x - )born 1950
- Hannah CheramyCanadian actress (born 2003)
- Hannah SenIndian educator, politician, and feminist1894–1957
- Maiden of LudmirHasidic female rabbi (1805–1888)1806–1888
- Hannah Al RashidBritish actress, model, and activist of Indonesian descentborn 1986
- Hannah StambaughJapanese association football player (born 1998)
- Hannah ReubenNigerian freestyle wrestlerborn 1994
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