Given name
Ans
“a woman graced with God's favor”
In Dutch use, Ans is a diminutive of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Dutch use, Ans is a diminutive of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ans is a diminutive of Anna. Anna comes from Middle Dutch, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Dutch usage, Ans is a diminutive of Anna.
Ans’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Ans is a diminutive of Anna. In Dutch usage, Ans has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Hana.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ans
- Ans van DijkDutch collaborator (1905-1948)
- Ans WortelDutch painter, poet and writer (1929-1996)
- Ans Panhorst-NiesinkDutch discus thrower and shot putter (1918–2010)
- Annie TimmermansOlympic swimmer (1919-1958)
- Ans van den BergDutch painter (1873-1942)
- Ans WestraNew Zealand photographer (1936–2023)
- Ans van Gerwenartistic gymnastborn 1951
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