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Anna can refer to a variety of things. Anna or Anne or Ann or Annie is a very popular given name.

Contents

1 Concepts
2 Names
3 Places
4 Things
5 People
6 Variants

6.1 Saint Anna
6.2 Pseudonyms
6.3 Fictional characters

7 Groups
8 Acronyms
9 Meanings
10 See also

Concepts

annum: in Latin, annum is the associative form of the second declension noun annus, meaning "year"
Anna: in Tamil, this is how an elder brother is addressed.

Names

Ana: It is a female given name, most commonly used by hispanic families, pronounced same as Anna.
Anna: A latin form of Hannah, which derive from the Hebrew word Channah which mean grace or favour.
Anne: A female given name which is a form of Anna.
Anne is also a family name (Surname) in andhra pradesh India.
Hanne, Hanna, and Hannah are female given names.
Anna Durai is referred to as Anna by his followers.
Anneliese is a combination of Anne and Elizabeth. [link]

Places

Ann, a lunar crater
Anna, Illinois, U.S.
Anna, Ohio, U.S.
Anna, Texas, U.S.
Ann Township, Minnesota, U.S.
Anna, Valencia, Spain

Things

Anna potatoes
Anne (Buffy episode), an episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Anna, an old Indian coin.
Anna, a 1952 Alberto Lattuada movie with Silvana Mangano, the first italian film dubbed in English language after World War II
Anna, a 1987 film
Anna dog, the only animal with a portrait at Johns Hopkins University
Anna (Go To Him), a song originally composed and recorded in 1962 by R&B singer Arthur Alexander. It was quickly covered by The Beatles in 1963 for their albums Please Please Me (UK) and Introducing... The Beatles (USA).
Anna, a song off Bad Company's 1975 album, Straight Shooter.
Anna, a Finnish women's magazine published by Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet.
Anna's biscuit, a Swedish ginger biscuits.
Anna Miller's, restaurants in Hawaii and Tokyo.

People

Anna or Anne or Ann is a popular given name. It is derived from the Hebrew name "Hannah" which means grace, charm, mercy. The name's popularity in its different forms in many countries is well deserved given its biblical traditions. There are a number of people whose first name and the most significant name was Anna or Anne:

Anna was the sister of Dido in Roman mythology and later literature. Ovid identified her with Anna Perenna in one account.
Anna is an alternate name for Morgause of Arthurian legend
Anna Perenna, the Roman goddess
Saint Anne (or Santa Ana), known by tradition as the mother of The Virgin Mary, and grandmother of Jesus
Anna, from the Gospel of Luke 2:36, a "prophetess", "daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher"
Anna, a king of East Anglia
Anna or Anne was the name of numerous queens, see Queen Anne
Anna Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States who always went by Eleanor. Her real first name is Anna.
Anna Kournikova, a professional Tennis player.
Ana Johnsson, a Swedish singer.
Anneliese Frank, commonly known as "Anne Frank", Holocaust-era diarist
Anna Olson, pastry chef and TV show host
Anna Nuzum, a person of prominance who rose to fame in early 2004.
Anna Popplewell, an English actress known for the role of Susan in the Narnia chronicles.

Variants

Anita, Spanish hypocoristic.
Anya or Annushka in Russian.
Ana, Anica in Serbian.
Anja in the Nordic languages.

Saint Anna

The form "Saint Anna" (Santa Ana in Spanish, sometimes Santana) is also used in names, for example for Antonio López de Santa Anna, a Mexican soldier-statesman.

Pseudonyms

the codename of Alfred Frenzel, a Czechoslovakian spy
Annadurai, famous South Indian leader

Fictional characters

Anna or Ti'ana, a fictional character in the Myst games
Anna Kyōyama, a fictional character that appeared in Butsu Zone, Itako no Anna, and Shaman King
Anne Shirley is a fictional character of the works Anne of Green Gables amongst others, and is very popular in Japan.
Anna is the main character in the book Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn.
Anna Karenina is the main character in a novel with the same name by Leo Tolstoy.
Anna Roma is a comic character in the Anna's Incense comic series Li'l Anna Roma.
Anna Storm, famous model from the UK
Ann Darrow, girl which Kong fell in love with from the movie King Kong
Anna was the girl who Fynn met in the book "Mister God, This is Anna".
Anne of Little Britain.
Anna from Shaman King

Groups

Anna or Arabana tribe Australian Aborigines

Acronyms

ANN can refer to an Artificial Neural Network

Meanings

Anne or Ana (both are correct) means mother in Turkic languages. Anna or Ana mean older brother in Kannada, an Indian language.