Entry № 694 · English origin

Ann Ann — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Grace (Ann Wilson; Ann Curry; Ann Bancroft)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "grace (ann wilson; ann curry; ann bancroft)".

Ann is the English short form of Anne — from the Hebrew Channah ("grace, favor").

Grace. Ann Bancroft is the first woman to reach both Poles by ice; Heart's Ann Wilson is in the Rock Hall.

The name in its native script.

Ann
Transliteration
Ann
Pronunciation
/ æn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ann stands.

Ann does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Anns before her.

Real people
Ann Wilson
American singer (Heart).
born 1950
Ann Bancroft
American polar explorer.
born 1955
Ann Curry
American journalist.
born 1956
In fiction
Ann Landers
Advice columnist.
1955

Names connected to Ann.

The number behind Ann.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ann reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.