Hana (name)
Appearance
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Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Meaning | the grace of God (Hebrew) moon (Albanian) happiness (Arabic) flower (Japanese) one (Korean) to glow (Maori) hope (Kurdish) |
Other names | |
Related names | Hannah |
Hana as a given name may have any of several origins. It can be a variant transliteration of Hannah, which is the Jewish, French and Christian form, meaning "grace" in Hebrew associated with God. It is also a Kurdish name meaning hope (هانا), a Persian name meaning flower (حَنا)[citation needed], and an Arabic name meaning happiness and satisfaction (هَناء). As a Japanese name, it is usually translated as flower (花). In Korean, it means the number one (하나). In Hawaiian, "Hana" means "craft" or "work". In Maori, "Hana" means to shine, glow, give out love or radiance. In Albanian, "Hana" means the moon.[1]
People
Czech and Slovak
- Hana Dostalová (1890–1981), Czech painter
- Hana Vítová (1914–1987), Czechoslovak film actress
- Hana Zelinová (1914–2004), Slovak writer
- Hana Maria Pravda (née Becková ; 1916–2008), Czechoslovakian-born British actress
- Hana Ponická (1922–2007), Slovak writer and dissident
- Hana Greenfield (née Lustigová; 1926–2014), Czechoslovak concentration camp survivor, later a writer in Israel
- Hana Bobková (born 1929), Czech gymnast
- Hana Hegerová (1931–2021), Slovak singer
- Hana Janků (1940–1995), Czech opera singer
- Hana Růžičková (1941–1981), Czech gymnast
- Hana Librová (born 1943), Czech biologist
- Hana Shezifi (born 1943), Israeli Olympic runner
- Hana Orgoníková (1945–2014), Czech politician
- Hana Mičechová (born 1946), Czech gymnast
- Hana Zagorová (born 1946), Czech singer
- Hana Mašková (1949–1972), Czech figure skater
- Hana Lišková (born 1952), Czech gymnast
- Hana Knapová (born 1956), Czechoslovak figure skater
- Hana Mandlíková (born 1962), Czech professional tennis player
- Hana Vejvodová (1963–1994), Czech pianist
- Hana Jonášová (born 1966), Czech opera singer
- Hana Andronikova (1967–2011), Czech writer
- Hana Říčná (born 1968), Czechoslovak gymnast
- Hana Černá (born 1974), Czech freestyle and medley swimmer
- Hana Benešová (born 1975), Czech sprinter
- Hana Šromová (born 1978), Czech tennis player
- Hana Vymazalová (born 1978), Czech Egyptologist
- Hana Horáková (born 1979), Czech basketball player
- Hana Blažíková (born 1980), Czech soprano and harpist
- Hana Klapalová (born 1982), Czech beach volleyball player
- Hana Vagnerová (born 1983), Czech stage and television actress
- Hana Bajtošova (born 1984), Czech cyclist
- Hana Martínková (born 1985), Czech handball player
- Hana Soukupová (born 1985), Czech supermodel
- Hana Birnerová (born 1989), Czech tennis player
- Hana Kutlvašrová (born 1989), Czech handball player
- Hana Sloupová (born 1991), Czech football player
- Hana Koudelová, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist
Japanese
- Hanahime (花, died 1639), Japanese woman of the late Azuchi-Momoyama through early Edo period
- Hana Kobayashi (born 1982), Venezuelan-Japanese singer
- Hana Usui (笛吹 花, born 1974), Japanese artist
- Hana Sugisaki (杉咲 花, born 1997), Japanese actress
- Hana Kimura (木村花, 1997–2020), Japanese professional wrestler
- Hana Wada (和田 はな, born 2002), Japanese shogi player
Korean
- Lee Ha-na (born 1982), South Korean actress
- Oh Ha-na (born 1985), South Korean fencer
- Park Ha-na (born 1985), South Korean actress
- Yoo Ha-na (born 1986), South Korean actress
- Kim Ha-na (born 1989), South Korean badminton player
- Han Hana (born 1990), South Korean actress
- Jung Hana (born 1990), South Korean rapper, member of Secret
- Jang Ha-na (born 1992), South Korean golfer
- Hana Mae Lee (fl. 2000s), American actress of Korean descent
- Shin Bo-ra (born 1993), stage name Hana, member of Gugudan
Arab
- Hana Sweid (born 1955), Israeli Arab politician
- Hana Majaj (born 1982), Jordanian swimmer
- Hana Shalabi (born 1982), Palestinian prisoner in Israel
- Hana Sheha (born 1985), Egyptian actress
- Hana Mareghni (born 1989), Tunisian judo practitioner
- Hana Elhebshi, Libyan activist
- Hana Hajjar, Saudi cartoonist
Other
- Hana Catherine Mullens (1826–1861), Swiss writer born in India who wrote one of the earliest Bengali novels
- Hana Meisel (1883–1972), Israeli agronomist
- Hana Shezifi (born 1943), Israeli Olympic runner
- Hana Wirth-Nesher (born 1948), Israeli literary scholar
- Hana Kuk (born 1986), Hong Kong singer-songwriter
- Hana Makhmalbaf (born 1988), Iranian filmmaker
- Hana Pestle (born 1989), American musician
- Hana Beaman, American snowboarder
Fictional characters
- Works from Japan
- Hana, a character in the manga series Peacemaker Kurogane
- Hana, a character in the anime film Wolf Children
- Hana-chan, a character in the anime series Ojamajo Doremi
- Hana Asakura, a character in the manga series Shaman King
- Hana N. Fountainstand, a character in the manga series Hanayamata
- Hana Ichinose (一之瀬 花名), protagonist of the manga series Slow Start
- Hana Inuzuka, a character in the manga and anime series Naruto, and anime series Naruto Shippuden
- Hana Isuzu, a character in the anime series Girls und Panzer
- Hana Nono (野乃 はな), a character in the anime series Hugtto! PreCure
- Hana Yamaguchi, a character in Japanese manga series Guru Guru Pon-chan
- Hanatarou Yamada, a character in the manga and anime series Bleach
- Saki Hanajima (Hana-chan), a character in the manga and anime series Fruits Basket
- Hana Midorikawa, a character in the manga and anime series, Prison School
- Hana, the protagonist in the Young Samurai novel The Ring of Water
- Hana Uzaki, the protagonist of Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!
- Works from elsewhere
- Hana, the wife of Sadao in Pearl Buck's short story "The Enemy"
- Hana, a Canadian nurse in the novel and film The English Patient
- Hana Stoppable, Ron's adopted baby sister in the 2002–2007 Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible
- Hana Gitelman, a character in 2006–2010 American graphics novel series Heroes
- Hana Tsu-Vachel, player character first introduced in 2009 in American video game series Fear Effect
- Jung Hana, a character in 2012 South Korean drama Love Rain
- D.Va, real name Hana Song, a fictional South Korean pro gamer and a player character in the video games Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm