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Ana

A trimmed-down variant of Anna, from the Hebrew for "grace, favour". Rare in Poland: only about 2,500 women carry it, given exclusively to girls and slipping further with each passing year.

Ana Pronunciation

Ana is pronounced AH-nah (/ˈana/).

Alive in 2025
2,563
Newborns 2025
8
National rank
#627

What Ana means

Where Ana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Ana comes from Hebrew, where the older name Hannah meant grace, or favour. It belongs to one of the oldest name families still common in Poland. The short form kept that meaning while dropping a syllable, and it settled easily into Polish.

It travels with a wide family. Anna and Hanna are the fuller variants, and the diminutives run from Ania and Hania to the more playful Anka and Andzia. A girl might be Ana on an official form at the urząd and Andzia to everyone who knows her.

The meaning stayed close to the root. Grace here is not the gloss it becomes on some names; the Hebrew sense of favour was there from the start. Small name, old meaning: grace, favour.

How many people are named Ana

1 in 8806 women in Poland is named Ana. 2,563 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #627 among female names.

People with the name Ana 2019 → 2025
2,563 +1,417 since 2019
2020 1,255 +109
2021 1,411 +156
2022 1,678 +267
2023 1,971 +293
2024 2,263 +292
2025 2,563 +300

Ana's popularity over time

8 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #757 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2004. Still the #627 name among living women, even as it slips to #757 among newborns.

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8 newborns with the name Ana in 2025
national rank #757 that year

Where parents choose Ana

Ana is most popular in Masovian, 205% above the national average (16 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+158%) and Łódź (+7%). It is least common in Silesian and Lesser Poland, 41% and 40% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Masovian
    +205%
    1 in 22,142 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +158%
    1 in 26,189 babies
  • Łódź
    +7%
    1 in 63,359 babies
Chosen least
  • Silesian
    −41%
    1 in 113,792 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    −40%
    1 in 113,458 babies
  • Greater Poland
    −37%
    1 in 107,622 babies

Ana as a middle name

Ana is a first name for 2,563 women in Poland and a middle name for another 231, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 445th, between Benita (232) and Mae (227).

As a first name
2,563
As a middle name
231
first name 92% middle name 8%
Middle-name ranking women

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