Ana

Meaning: Grace; favor
Origin: Variant of Anna (from Hebrew)

Girl's name · #245 in the US (2025) · 90s wave

Popularity over time

Ana's best rank, #119, came in 1991; it has settled back to #245 today. Roughly 111,000 girls have been named Ana since 1880.

Across the states

See where Ana is more common.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 39 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

Ana is especially popular in Bosnia (Rep. Srpska).

#10 in Bosnia (Rep. Srpska) (2025) · #13 in Croatia (2025) · #14 in Portugal (2023) · #24 in Slovenia (2025) · #29 in Ecuador (2025) · #34 in Spain (2024) · #39 in Bosnia (FBiH) (2025) · #44 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #140 in Austria (2025) · #148 in France (2025) · #154 in Switzerland (2025) · #217 in Mexico (2024) and 11 more.

Famous Anas

Ana Mena — Spanish singer-songwriter, actress and model
Ana Brnabić — President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Ana Ivanovic — Serbian tennis player
Ana de Armas — Cuban actress (born 1988)
Ana Blandiana — Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure

In stories & tradition

Ana Lucia Cortez — Lost (TV series)
Ana — Heroes of the Storm (video game)
Ana Kravinoff — Marvel Comics

What Anas become

Among 5,079 notable people named Ana:

Scientists & scholars appear 1.33× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ana Aslan, Romanian biologist and physician (1897–1988).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Anna (#107), Ana would rank around #60 with about 3,800 births last year — the newborns split about 66/34 between Anna and Ana.

Similar names: Hanna · Molly · Aniyah · Joanna · Gabriela · Adriana

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