Hana (name)

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HanaPronunciation| hah-nah (Japanese)

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Gender| Female
Origin
Meaning| the grace of God (Hebrew)
moon (Albanian)
happiness (Arabic)
flower (Japanese)
one (Korean)
to glow (Maori)
help(Kurdish)
Other names
Related names| Hannah
Mana

Hana as a given name may have any of several origins. It is also a Kurdish name meaning hope (هانا), a Persian name meaning flower (حَنا) and an Arabic name meaning bliss (هَناء). As a Japanese name, it is usually translated as flower (花). In Korean, it means the number one (하나). In Hawaiian, "Hana" means "craft" or "work". In Maori, "Hana" means to shine, glow, give out love or radiance. In Albanian, "Hana" means the moon.[1]

## People[edit]

### Czech and Slovak[edit]

* Hana Dostalová (1890–1981), Czech painter
* Hana Vítová (1914–1987), Czechoslovak film actress
* Hana Zelinová (1914–2004), Slovak writer
* Hana Maria Pravda (née Becková ; 1916–2008), Czechoslovakian-born British actress
* Hana Ponická (1922–2007), Slovak writer and dissident
* Hana Greenfield (née Lustigová; 1926–2014), Czechoslovak concentration camp survivor, later a writer in Israel
* Hana Bobková (1929–2017), Czech gymnast
* Hana Brady (1931–1944), Czechoslovak Jewish girl killed in the Holocaust
* Hana Hegerová (1931–2021), Slovak singer
* Hana Janků (1940–1995), Czech opera singer
* Hana Růžičková (1941–1981), Czech gymnast
* Hana Librová (born 1943), Czech biologist
* Hana Shezifi (born 1944), Israeli Olympic runner
* Hana Orgoníková (1945–2014), Czech politician
* Hana Mičechová (1946–2020), Czech gymnast
* Hana Zagorová (1946-2022), Czech singer
* Hana Mašková (1949–1972), Czech figure skater
* Hana Lišková (born 1952), Czech gymnast
* Hana Knapová (born 1956), Czechoslovak figure skater
* Hana Mandlíková (born 1962), Czech professional tennis player
* Hana Vejvodová (1963–1994), Czech pianist
* Hana Jonášová (born 1966), Czech opera singer
* Hana Andronikova (1967–2011), Czech writer
* Hana Říčná (born 1968), Czechoslovak gymnast
* Hana Černá (born 1974), Czech freestyle and medley swimmer
* Hana Benešová (born 1975), Czech sprinter
* Hana Šromová (born 1978), Czech tennis player
* Hana Vymazalová (born 1978), Czech Egyptologist
* Hana Horáková (born 1979), Czech basketball player
* Hana Blažíková (born 1980), Czech soprano and harpist
* Hana Klapalová (born 1982), Czech beach volleyball player
* Hana Vagnerová (born 1983), Czech stage and television actress
* Hana Bajtošova (born 1984), Czech cyclist
* Hana Martínková (born 1985), Czech handball player
* Hana Soukupová (born 1985), Czech supermodel
* Hana Birnerová (born 1989), Czech tennis player
* Hana Kutlvašrová (born 1989), Czech handball player
* Hana Sloupová (born 1991), Czech football player
* Hana Koudelová, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist

### Japanese[edit]

* Hanahime (花, died 1639), Japanese woman of the late Azuchi-Momoyama through early Edo period
* Hana Kimura (木村花, 1997–2020), Japanese professional wrestler
* Hana Kobayashi (born 1982), Venezuelan-Japanese singer
* Hana Sugisaki (杉咲 花, born 1997), Japanese actress
* Hana Usui (笛吹 花, born 1974), Japanese artist
* Hana Wada (和田 はな, born 2002), Japanese shogi player

### Korean[edit]

* Lee Ha-na (born 1982), South Korean actress
* Oh Ha-na (born 1985), South Korean fencer
* Park Ha-na (born 1985), South Korean actress
* Yoo Ha-na (born 1986), South Korean actress
* Hana Mae Lee (born 1988), American actress of Korean descent
* Kim Ha-na (born 1989), South Korean badminton player
* Han Hana (born 1990), South Korean actress
* Jung Hana (born 1990), South Korean rapper, member of girl group Secret
* Jang Ha-na (born 1992), South Korean golfer

### Arab[edit]

* Hana Elhebshi (born c. 1985), Libyan activist
* Hana Hajjar, Saudi cartoonist
* Hana Majaj (born 1982), Jordanian swimmer
* Hana Mareghni (born 1989), Tunisian judo practitioner
* Hana Shalabi (born 1982), Palestinian prisoner in Israel
* Hana Sheha (born 1985), Egyptian actress
* Hana Sweid (born 1955), Israeli Arab politician

### Other[edit]

* Hana Beaman, American snowboarder
* Hana Catherine Mullens (1826–1861), Swiss writer born in India who wrote one of the earliest Bengali novels
* Hana Kuk (born 1986), Hong Kong singer-songwriter
* Hana Makhmalbaf (born 1988), Iranian filmmaker
* Hana Meisel (1883–1972), Israeli agronomist
* Hana Pestle (born 1989), American musician
* Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke (born 2002), New Zealand politician
* Hana Shezifi (born 1943), Israeli Olympic runner
* Hana Wirth-Nesher (born 1948), Israeli literary scholar

## Fictional characters[edit]

Works from Japan

* Hana, a character in the manga series Peacemaker Kurogane
* Hana, a character in the anime film  Tokyo Godfathers
* Hana, a character in the anime film Wolf Children
* Hana, the protagonist in the Young Samurai novel The Ring of Water
* Hana, a samurai from Hoshido and a playable unit in Fire Emblem Fates
* Hana Shimano, Shimajirou’s younger sister in the anime series Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou
* Hana-chan, a character in the anime series Ojamajo Doremi
* Hana Asakura, a character in the manga series Shaman King
* Hana N. Fountainstand, a character in the manga series Hanayamata
* Hana Ichinose (一之瀬 花名), protagonist of the manga series Slow Start
* Hana Inuzuka, a character in the manga and anime series Naruto, and anime series Naruto Shippuden
* Hana Isuzu, a character in the anime series Girls und Panzer
* Hana Midorikawa, a character in the manga and anime series, Prison School
* Hana Nono (野乃 はな), a character in the anime series Hugtto! PreCure
* Saki Hanajima (Hana-chan), a character in the manga and anime series Fruits Basket
* Hana Uzaki, the protagonist of Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!
* Hana Yamaguchi, a character in Japanese manga series Guru Guru Pon-chan

Works from elsewhere

* Hana, the wife of Sadao in Pearl Buck's short story "The Enemy"
* Hana, a Canadian nurse in the novel and film The English Patient
* Hana Gitelman, a character in 2006–2010 American graphics novel series Heroes
* Hana Stoppable, Ron's adopted baby sister in the 2002–2007 Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible
* Hana the Hanukkah Fairy, a character in the British book series Rainbow Magic
* Jung Hana, a character in 2012 South Korean drama Love Rain
* D.Va, real name Hana Song, a fictional South Korean pro gamer and a player character in the video games Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm
* Hana Tsu-Vachel, player character first introduced in 2009 in American video game series Fear Effect

## See also[edit]

* Hana (disambiguation)

## References[edit]

1. ^ "hana - Te Aka Māori Dictionary".

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