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HANNAH
Gender: Feminine Usage: English, Jewish, French, German, Biblical Pronounced: HAN-ə (English), HAH-nah (German) [key]
From the Hebrew name חַנָּה (Channah) which meant "favour" or "grace". Hannah was the mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament. As an English name, Hannah was not regularly used until after the Protestant Reformation. The Greek and Latin version Anna is used in the New Testament and was traditionally more widely used as a Christian name.
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