Hanna
A Hebrew name meaning grace or favour. It climbed hard through the 2010s and still sits inside Poland's top 100, though today's parents reach for it less often than they did at its peak.
Hanna Pronunciation
Hanna is pronounced KHAHN-nah (/ˈxanna/).
What Hanna means
Where Hanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hanna comes from the Hebrew Channah, and its old sense is grace, or favour. In the first book of Samuel, a woman named Hannah prays for a child and is granted one. The name has kept company with that story for a long time.
Polish took it in and built a household of forms around it. Anna sits closest, almost a twin. Ania and Hania are the everyday diminutives, the ones a teacher calls out from a class register. Anka is blunter, Andzia softer, and Anja is the variant you meet on an official form at the urząd. Each one bends the same short word into a different tone.
The meaning stayed simple. Grace and favour, nothing more elaborate than that. A girl named Hanna does not have to earn it or explain it. On the twenty-sixth of July, the imieniny shared with Anna, the name gets its own small day in the Polish calendar. And underneath every version, from Andzia to Anka, sits the same Hebrew root: grace.
How many people are named Hanna
1 in 99 women in Poland is named Hanna. 227,703 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #56 among female names.
Hanna's popularity over time
3,452 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #13 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where Hanna is most popular
Hanna is most popular in Świętokrzyskie, 22% above the national average (1,168 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+19%) and Warmian-Masurian (+16%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Pomeranian, 21% and 17% below average respectively.
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Świętokrzyskie1,168 girls born+22%
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Opole946 girls born+19%
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Warmian-Masurian1,436 girls born+16%
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West Pomeranian1,679 girls born+15%
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Łódź2,482 girls born+14%
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Lubusz938 girls born+10%
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Lower Silesian2,955 girls born+9%
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Lublin1,934 girls born+9%
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Silesian4,294 girls born+9%
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Podlaskie1,200 girls born+6%
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Subcarpathian2,097 girls born+1%
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Lesser Poland3,768 girls born−4%
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Masovian5,619 girls born−8%
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Greater Poland3,175 girls born−14%
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Pomeranian2,098 girls born−17%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian1,488 girls born−21%
Hanna as a middle name
Hanna is a first name for 227,703 women in Poland and a middle name for another 36,564, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 60th, between Lucyna (37,178) and Ewelina (36,185).
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58
39,174Edyta
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59
37,178Lucyna
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6036,564Hanna
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61
36,185Ewelina
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62
34,636Klaudia
When Hanna celebrates name day
Hanna appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 26 July.