Anne · English girl’s name

Anne in Hawaiian is ʻAna

The form Hawaiian speakers have written since the 1800s, when the doubled consonant was written once, and the final e became a.

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AH·nah

The gold syllable takes the stress.

What is Anne in Hawaiian?

Anne is ʻAna in Hawaiian, said AH-nah. The same form covers Ann and Anna, because Hawaiian writes all of these spellings the same way.

How Anne became ʻAna

Hawaiian is written with thirteen letters, so in Anne the doubled consonant was written once, and the final e became a. Hawaiian never writes a consonant twice, so the pair collapses to one. The ʻokina at the front is a consonant in Hawaiian, the catch in the voice before the first vowel.

Not to be confused with ana, a different Hawaiian word meaning “cave”.

How to say ʻAna

Say it AH-nah, leaning on AH, sounding every vowel: a as in “father”. The ʻokina (ʻ) is a catch in the voice, the break in the middle of “uh-oh”. The pronunciation guide covers the whole system.

Anne, the French spelling

Anne is the French form of Anna, from the Hebrew Hannah, grace. It came into English with the Normans, and the silent final e was kept as a mark of the French original. Queens of England and Brittany made it a royal name.

The e is not pronounced in English, and Hawaiian ignores it. Anne is ʻAna, exactly like Ann and Anna.

Sources the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, Place Names of Hawaii, Nānā i ke Kumu, wehewehe.org, Wiktionary's Hawaiian given names and U.S. Social Security baby-name records. How this site is compiled · Send a correction

Questions people ask

What is Anne in Hawaiian?

Anne is ʻAna in Hawaiian, pronounced AH-nah. It is the form used in Hawaiian-language records since the 1800s, and it covers Ann and Anna as well.

How do you pronounce ʻAna?

AH-nah, with the stress on AH.

Why does ʻAna look so different from Anne?

Each sound Hawaiian lacks was swapped for the nearest one it has. In Anne, the doubled consonant was written once, and the final e became a.

Is ʻAna a real Hawaiian name?

Yes, as a borrowed name. Hawaiian families have used ʻAna since the 1800s, but it is Anne respelled, not a name built from Hawaiian words.

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