Ganna
A Slavic name meaning "grace", carried in Poland almost entirely by Ukrainian women. Around 2,400 hold it and hardly any go to newborns now, so most Poles have never met one.
Ganna Pronunciation
Ganna is pronounced GAHN-nah (/ˈganna/).
What Ganna means
Where Ganna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ganna is the Ukrainian form of Anna, and it keeps close company. Nearest sits the variant Hanna, then the diminutives Hania and Ania that friends and family reach for. In a Polish school register the full name might stand beside these shorter ones, one child answering to all of them.
The meaning fixed to the name is grace, łaska in Polish. That sense arrived with Anna and passed to every branch of the family, Ganna among them. It held. The grace was attached to the name long before Ganna reached Ukrainian speech.
Say Ganna and Hanna is a breath away. The two spellings hold the same name, carried through Slavic usage. A child called Ania today stands at the far end of that line, wearing a form of grace.
How many people are named Ganna
1 in 9476 women in Poland is named Ganna. 2,379 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #657 among female names.