Talk:Hannah

MEANING

Hannah can mean beauty or grace. Also Hannah/hanna can mean God has favoured me. The name is used in the bible. I also love the name hannah & find it very annoying when people assume or can't be bothered to put an h on the end of it. --86.140.238.39 17:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

The name doesnt mention God. That would require the name to contain el or iah or Jeh/Jah/Jo. See theophory. --User talk:FDuffy 17:58, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps they're assuming it's short for a female version of Yochanan aka "John" (or the female version of a short form). -- pne (talk) 19:56, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

How many?

I wonder how many people are named Hannah? Do you ever think about that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.141.120.97 (talk • contribs)

In the US, approximately 1 in 2222 women have the given name mnamed 'Hannah'[1]. The US has a population of roughly 301 191 000 people, and we can estimate that about 50% of those are female. Thus, (1 / 2 222) * 301 191 000 = roughly 135 549 people in the United States. Figuring out the world total is beyond my ken. Non-English-speaking nations will tend to use different spellings, of course. -- General Wesc 20:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Fictional characters, bands, and so on

Should fictional characters such as Hannah Carpenter just be listed under 'People given-named Hannah'? How about Miley Stewart, a fictional character with the pseudonym Hannah Montana, which is also the title of the TV show in which she appears? (Not to mention the crossover special That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana.

Also, bands. Kill Hannah, for example. Seems like TV shows and bands would be nice to place together under the same heading.

Of cours, how comprehensive do we want this list, really? It doesn't seem liking listing people/things related to the name 'Hannah' is the primary goal of the article. -- General Wesc 16:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I believe that most people who come to this page want to find various PEOPLE named "Hannah", not some list of places in America called "Hannah"! TheTrojanHought (talk) 22:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Adding section for News

04-Sep-2008: Because Wikipedia has a dual role in providing information on news topics, as well as traditionally established subjects, there is a split as to which meaning, old or new, is most appropriate for quick links to subjects. To support that dual role, I am adding a group "News" to link meanings of "Hanna" that are in recent news, beyond the older traditional links of the Hanna name. This is in response to the name "Hurricane Hanna" which is a storm that struck the U.S. in September 2008. Typically, a name such as "Shakespeare" would be quickly linked to the oldest mainstream meaning of the term (as in "William ~"); however, if a ship named "Shakespeare" were in top news stories, such a link could be placed, in a disambiguation page, under "News" as an alternate quick link. From the one disambiguation page, readers have a choice to read either about the popular, recent name or the older articles about the similar name. -Wikid77 (talk) 07:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

• 05-Sep-2008: Several people couldn't handle the concept of "News" as a grouping that normal people would use, so they axed the "News" grouping without discussion, which was typical behavior of how articles were chopped in September 2008. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:50, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Hanna the hurricane/storm/depression

05-Sep-2008: Note that due to traditional rules for naming hurricanes, the titles of "Tropical Depression Hanna" and "Tropical Storm Hanna (2008)" are also "Hurricane Hanna" (with the name changing hourly based on wind speed)) as 3 ambiguous names that tie to the same article about cyclone Hanna. The multiple names are tolerated among hurricane-savy people, but this disambiguation page has entries to show that the multiple names are the same tropical cyclone. However, there is a separate article "Tropical Storm Hanna" which is a list of all Hanna-named storms. I added text to this article to clearly indicate the distinction, but other people have been removing that wording as "redundant" when, actually, the terms are quite separate as monikers which link various articles. I don't know how long it will take for other people to comprehend the need for disambiguation and, thus, listing the multiple names for cyclone Hanna as what people see for the hour (depending on wind speed). Some writers on Wikipedia are just stubborn against change, but many truly do not understand that listing all 3 names for hurricane/storm/depression Hanna is an issue of disambiguation, compared to article "Tropical Storm Hanna" which is NOT that cyclone, but rather a list of all Hanna-named storms. Name issues take time for some people to absorb. Do you understand the difference here, and that cyclone Hanna will be named "Hurricane Hanna" when speed reaches 74 mph (119)? -Wikid77 (talk) 12:50, 5 September 2008 (UTC)