What does ana mean in Hawaiian?
Ana is a cave or hollow — the lava tubes that run through the islands, the sea caves cut into cliffs, any sheltered opening in rock.
Caves mattered: they were shelter, water source, and burial place, and many are still treated as sacred and are not entered. The word also serves as a grammatical particle in other contexts, which is why it turns up inside longer names with a different job entirely.
Say it AH-nah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site ana is part of 2 names: 0 begin with it, 1 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning earth.