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Baby name
Anna
Girl
Origin of the name
Anna is the Latin form of Anne, which comes from the Hebrew Hannah, “grace.”
Classic name
914,859births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 10rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Anna are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Anna is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Anna is most common in Pennsylvania (2.1 times), Kentucky (1.9) and West Virginia (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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