Ana-Maria
Only about 130 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick with you. It joins two names: Anna, "grace," and Maria.
Ana-Maria Pronunciation
Ana-Maria is pronounced AH-nah-MAHR-yah (/ˈana ˈmarja/).
What Ana-Maria means
Where Ana-Maria comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ana-Maria sets two Hebrew names beside each other. Anna traces back to Channah, the Hebrew word for grace or favor. Maria descends from Miriam, the origin of every Mary and Maria across Europe. Read together, the compound means grace and the beloved, or in Polish łaska i umiłowana.
The variant anna-maria doubles a letter and little else changes. Both spellings stack two saints' names into one, a habit Polish naming has kept for centuries. Picture a class register at the start of term. Ana-Maria takes up more space than the names around it, and the teacher marking attendance gives each half its own beat.
Grace, for Anna, is no later gloss. Channah carried that sense in Hebrew from the start, long before the name traveled through Greek Anna into Polish. Maria's thread is older still. A child called Ana-Maria answers to łaska i umiłowana, grace and the beloved.
How many people are named Ana-Maria
1 in 174758 women in Poland is named Ana-Maria. 129 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2931 among female names.
Ana-Maria's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Ana-Maria as a middle name
Ana-Maria is a first name for 129 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4563rd, between Amirah (3) and Anatalia (3).
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