Bible Names

Anna: meaning of the name

Anna means “gracious; one who gives.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Anna in Hebrew and Greek

Ἄννα G451

Ánna — Anna, an Israelitess

of Hebrew origin (H02584);

Who named Anna in the Bible

Anna in Scripture

“Anna” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Luke 2:36

    And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;