Hana

Where Hana comes from

Hana hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,979 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1962
    Hana Mandlíková born
    Czech tennis player
  3. 2000
    Hana Takahashi born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 2002
    Peak, #621
    411 babies named Hana — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hana Mandlíková · Czech tennis player, born 1962
  • Hana Takahashi · Japanese association football player, born 2000
  • Hana Mae Lee · American actress, born 1988
  • Hana Kimura · Japanese professional wrestler, 1997–2020
  • Hana Hegerová · Czech actress, singer and chansonier, 1931–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.