Ann

• Anne

The English form of Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ἄννα (Ánna), the Ancient Greek New Testament form of the Hebrew female name חַנָּה‎ (ḥannâ), meaning "grace, gracious".

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /æn/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): /eən/

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• Rhymes: -æn

Ann

1. A female given name.
   • 1903 George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman: Act I:

     RAMSDEN. When you say Ann, you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield.

     TANNER. I mean our Ann, your Ann, Tavy's Ann, and now, Heaven help me, my Ann.

   • 1969 Constance Urdang, Natural History, Harper&Row 1969, page 61:

     Given a perfectly good American name like Ann, she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea.

   • 2005 Mary Monroe, In Sheep's Clothing, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 129:

     "Her full name is Annie Lou. Like calling herself a snooty white girl name like Ann makes up for it."

     "Must I remind you that Ann is also my middle name?"

• Popular since the fourteenth century due to the medieval cult of Saint Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary.
• A very common middle name since the 20th century.

• Ann Arbor

• Anita, Anke, Anna, Anne, Anneke, Annette, Annie, Annika, Anya, Nan, Nance, Nancy, Nannie, Nanny

Ann (plural Anns)

1. Abbreviation of anniversary.

Ann (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of annual.

• NAN, NaN, Nan, nan

From English Ann. Variant of Danish Anna and Anne.

Ann

1. A female given name.

Ann

1. A female given name, an old Estonian short form of Anna.

Ann f

1. A female given name, Manx equivalent to Anna.

• Onnee

From English Ann. Variant of the Norwegian Anna and Anne.

Ann

1. A female given name.

• Common first part of hyphenated names such as Ann-Kristin.

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 12 786 females with the given name Ann living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

From English Ann, first recorded as a Swedish given name in 1860.

Ann c (genitive Anns)

1. A female given name.

• Common first first part of hyphenated names such as Ann-Marie or Ann-Kristin.

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 34 106 females with the given name Ann living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Borrowed from English Ann.

Ann

1. A female given name