ANN

ANN This popular name has over 100 variations throughout the world. Some of them are; ANNA, ANNE, ANNETTE; the Slavonic diminutive ANIKA; the Spanish diminutive ANITA; and NAN, NANCY, NANETTE, ANN is the Greek and Latin form of the Hebrew HANNAH meaning grace. In Christian legend St. Ann was the mother of the Virgin Mary. The Sanskrit ANNAPURNA was the goddess of plenty. A Hawaiian form for this name could be MAIKA'I. In addition to grace, MAIKA'I means excellent, beautiful, righteousness, and well-being. The Christian prayer "Hail Mary, full of grace"...begins in Hawaiian "aloha'oe e Malia ua piha 'oe i ka MAIKA'I..." The Hawaiianized-English form of ANN and ANNA is ANA which is a native Hawaiian meaning to measure or a cave; NAN=NANA which means to weave and is also the name of a star and a variety of taro.


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