Ana
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 36(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 42
- BRBrazil1 in 54
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #9 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 622 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36 (inferred from the name graph)
3,948,650 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Anna in US United States, PL Poland, SE Sweden and 1 more, Анна in RU Russia and Ганна in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Latin[in(measured from records)
- AncientGreek(measured from records)
Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ana is read(measured from records)
Ana is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish46%
- Portuguese32%
- English7.4%
A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #5 | 3,948,650 | 1 in 54 | 3.9M | Ana | 287 |
| RU Russia | #15 | ≈2,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | #5 | Анна | 302 |
| PL Poland | #1 | 1,063,756as Anna | 1 in 36 | 1.1M | Anna | 282 |
| UA Ukraine | #10 | ≈910,000 est. | ≈1 in 48 | listed | Ганна | 162 |
| US United States | #75 | 512,954as Anna | 1 in 648 | 512K | Anna | 622 |
| SE Sweden | #2 | 302,994as Anna | 1 in 34 | 303K | Anna | 212 |
| CZ Czechia | #15 | 269,638as Anna | 1 in 40 | 270K | Anna | 170 |
| PT Portugal | #2 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 42 | 622 | Ana | 240 |
| SV El Salvador | #10 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 36 | — | Ana | 108 |
3,948,650 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Ana är en spansk och sydslavisk form av → Anna.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., spanische, aber auch bulga rische, serbische, kroatische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anna Comnenab. 1083TRnot in their usual nameByzantine princess and historian
- Anna of Austria, Queen of Spainb. 1549ESnot in their usual namequeen consort of Spain (1549-1580)
- Anne d'Autricheb. 1601ESnot in their usual nameQueen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived (1601-1666)
- Anna Ivanovnab. 1693RUnot in their usual namefourth Emperor of Russia from 1730 to 1740 (1693-1740)
- Anna Pawlowab. 1882RUnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer (1881–1931)
- Anna Wintourb. 1949GBnot in their usual nameEnglish magazine editor
- Anna Lindhb. 1957SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (1957-2003)
- Rachel Weiszb. 1970GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1970)
- Anna Kournikovab. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player and model
- Dakota Fanningb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1994)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 148 sources across 73 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.9M | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.9M | #3 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.1M | #12 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 3.1M | #2 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 321K | #161 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 278K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 19K | #3 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.1K | #693 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.8K | #323 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2.8K | #323 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.3K | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ana?
- A machine transcription gives /ana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Ana?
- In the etymology graph, Ann, Ali and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages; Anita, Anabel and Anika are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Ana mean, and where does it come from?
- Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ana have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.9 million people named Ana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ana.
- Is Ana a male or female name?
- Ana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Ana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,948,650 people named Ana in 2022, about 1 in 54 residents.
- How common is Ana compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ana is the 5th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ana” — the 5th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.