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ANNA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Finnish, Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Icelandic, Catalan, Breton, Biblical
Other Scripts: Αννα (Greek), Анна (Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: AN-a (English), AHN-nah (Italian, Dutch, Polish), AH-nah (German, Russian)
Fact: Latinate form of HANNAH. It appears briefly in the New Testament belonging to a prophetess who recognized Jesus as the Messiah. It was also borne by an 18th-century empress of Russia and by the main character in Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina', a woman forced to choose between her son and her lover.
MARIA
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Romanian, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Corsican
Other Scripts: Μαρια (Greek)
Pronounced: mah-REE-ah (Italian, German, Dutch), MAHR-yah (Polish)
Fact: Latinate form of MARY. This was the name of several queens of Portugal. It was also borne by the 18th-century Habsburg queen Maria Theresa, whose inheritance of the domains of her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, began the War of the Austrian Succession. In some countries, for example Germany and Poland, Maria is occasionally used as a masculine middle name
Credit: Behind the Name
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Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Finnish, Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Icelandic, Catalan, Breton, Biblical
Other Scripts: Αννα (Greek), Анна (Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: AN-a (English), AHN-nah (Italian, Dutch, Polish), AH-nah (German, Russian)
Fact: Latinate form of HANNAH. It appears briefly in the New Testament belonging to a prophetess who recognized Jesus as the Messiah. It was also borne by an 18th-century empress of Russia and by the main character in Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina', a woman forced to choose between her son and her lover.
MARIA
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Romanian, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Corsican
Other Scripts: Μαρια (Greek)
Pronounced: mah-REE-ah (Italian, German, Dutch), MAHR-yah (Polish)
Fact: Latinate form of MARY. This was the name of several queens of Portugal. It was also borne by the 18th-century Habsburg queen Maria Theresa, whose inheritance of the domains of her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, began the War of the Austrian Succession. In some countries, for example Germany and Poland, Maria is occasionally used as a masculine middle name
Credit: Behind the Name
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