Anna
Anna is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Vegetable.
What Anna means
Vegetable.
Anna is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Anna comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Anna is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Anna?
In the girl name rankings we track, Anna falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
Names like Anna
These share Anna's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Akari — Light, brightness.
- Aoi — Hollyhock; the color blue.
- Achika — Excellent.
- Aeka — Excellent.
- Aeko — Child.
- Aemi — Reality.
- Ageha — Waves.
- Aguri — Ri.
- Aika — Flower.
- Aiko — Child.
- Aimi — Beauty.
- Aina — Vegetable.