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Hana as a feminine multicultural given name with a variety of origins in different languages.

Origins
Hana is primarily known to be associated as an alternative spelling to the Hebrew name Hannah meaning "favour, grace". Hana as an alternative spelling to Hannah is used in many languages such as Czech, Slovak and Croatian. . The name can also be used by people of Palestinian and Bosnian heritage.

In Europe, Hana is also a feminine given name in Albanian, allegedly derived from Albanian "the moon" (hëna), or "Monday" (e Hane), referring to the first day of the week.

In the Middle East and South Asia, Hana as a feminine given name is used in Arabic, Kurdish and Persian and Urdu. Hana, written as هَنا or هناء in Arabic, or as حناع in Urdu, both mean "bliss, happiness". However, written as هانا in Kurdish, it means "hope", and written as حَنا in Persian, it means "flower".

In East Asia, Hana is a femine given name in Korean and Japanese. In Korean, Hana means the number "one" (하나); it is a native Korean name and does not have corresponding hanja. In Japanese, Hana typically means "flower" and can be written as 花, 華 or はな, however different kanji can be used to create new meanings other than "flower".

In other languages, Hana means "work" or "craft" in Hawaiian, and "to shine, to glow, to give out heat" in Māori.

Albanian

 * Hana Cakuli (born 1989), Albanian singer

Arab

 * Hana Mahmed (born 1978), Indian Arab poet Fazzizi
 * Hana Majaj (born 1982), Jordanian swimmer
 * Hana Sheha (born 1985), Egyptian actress
 * Hana Hajjar, Saudi cartoonist

Czech and Slovak

 * Hana Dostalová (1890–1981), Czech painter
 * Hana Vítová (1914–1987), Czechoslovak film actress
 * Hana Zelinová (1914–2004), Slovak writer
 * Hana Maria Pravda (née Becková ; 1916–2008), Czechoslovakian-born British actress
 * Hana Ponická (1922–2007), Slovak writer and dissident
 * Hana Greenfield (née Lustigová; 1926–2014), Czechoslovak concentration camp survivor, later a writer in Israel
 * Hana Bobková (born 1929), Czech gymnast
 * Hana Hegerová (born 1931), Slovak singer
 * Hana Janků (1940–1995), Czech opera singer
 * Hana Růžičková (1941–1981), Czech gymnast
 * Hana Librová (born 1943), Czech biologist
 * Hana Orgoníková (1945–2014), Czech politician
 * Hana Mičechová (born 1946), Czech gymnast
 * Hana Zagorová (born 1946), Czech singer
 * Hana Mašková (1949–1972), Czech figure skater
 * Hana Lišková (born 1952), Czech gymnast
 * Hana Knapová (born 1956), Czechoslovak figure skater
 * Hana Mandlíková (born 1962), Czech professional tennis player
 * Hana Vejvodová (1963–1994), Czech pianist
 * Hana Jonášová (born 1966), Czech opera singer
 * Hana Andronikova (1967–2011), Czech writer
 * Hana Říčná (born 1968), Czechoslovak gymnast
 * Hana Černá (born 1974), Czech freestyle and medley swimmer
 * Hana Benešová (born 1975), Czech sprinter
 * Hana Šromová (born 1978), Czech tennis player
 * Hana Vymazalová (born 1978), Czech Egyptologist
 * Hana Horáková (born 1979), Czech basketball player
 * Hana Blažíková (born 1980), Czech soprano and harpist
 * Hana Klapalová (born 1982), Czech beach volleyball player
 * Hana Vagnerová (born 1983), Czech stage and television actress
 * Hana Bajtošova (born 1984), Czech cyclist
 * Hana Martínková (born 1985), Czech handball player
 * Hana Soukupová (born 1985), Czech supermodel
 * Hana Birnerová (born 1989), Czech tennis player
 * Hana Kutlvašrová (born 1989), Czech handball player
 * Hana Sloupová (born 1991), Czech football player
 * Hana Koudelová, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist
 * Hana Brandy (1931-1944), real name Hana "Hanička" Bradyová, Jewish Czech child victim of the Holocaust

Israeli

 * Hana Shezifi (born 1943), Israeli Olympic runner
 * Hana Sweid (born 1955), Israeli Arab politician
 * Hana Meisel (1883–1972), Israeli agronomist
 * Hana Wirth-Nesher (born 1948), Israeli literary scholar

Japanese

 * Hana Usui (笛吹 花), Japanese artist
 * Hana Sugisaki (杉咲 花), Japanese actress

Korean

 * Lee Ha-na (born 1982), South Korean actress
 * Oh Ha-na (born 1985), South Korean fencer
 * Park Ha-na (born 1985), South Korean actress
 * Yoo Ha-na (born 1986), South Korean actress
 * Kim Ha-na (born 1989), South Korean badminton player
 * Jung Ha-na (born 1990), South Korean rapper, member of girl group Secret
 * Jang Ha-na (born 1992), South Korean golfer
 * Shin Bo-ra (born 1993), stage name Hana, member of South Korean girl group Gugudan

Palestinians

 * Hana Shalabi (born 1982), Palestinian prisoner in Israel

Other

 * Hana Catherine Mullens (1826–1861), Bengali writer of Swiss descent, wrote the first novel in the Bengali language
 * Hana Čutura (born 1988), Croatian volleyball player
 * Hana Hatae (born 1988), American child actress
 * Hana Makhmalbaf (born 1988), Iranian filmmaker
 * Hana Pestle (born 1989), American singer
 * Hana Beaman, American snowboarder
 * Hana Mae Lee (born 1988), American actress of Korean-Japanese descent
 * Hana Mareghni (born 1989), Tunisian judoka
 * Hana Elhebshi, Libyan activist

Fictional Characters

 * Works from Japan
 * Hana Asakura, the son of Anna Kyoyama and Yoh Asakura in Japanese manga series Shaman King
 * Hana Inuzuka, the elder sister of the character Kiba Inuzuka in Japanese manga series Naruto
 * Hana Makihatayama, (Hana-chan) a character in Japanese anime Ojamajo Doremi
 * Hana Yamaguchi, a character in Japanese manga series Guru Guru Pon-chan
 * Hanatarou Yamada, a character in Japanese manga series Bleach
 * Saki Hanajima (Hana-chan), a character in Japanese manga and anime Fruits Basket
 * Hana, a character in Japanese manga and anime series Peacemaker Kurogane
 * Hana Isuzu, a character in Japanese manga and anime series Girls und Panzer
 * Hana, a character in Japanese anime movie Wolf Children
 * Hana N. Fountainstand, a character in Japanese manga series Hanayamata


 * Works from elsewhere
 * Hana, the wife of Sadao in Pearl Buck's short story "The Enemy"
 * Hana, a Canadian nurse in the award-winning novel and film The English Patient
 * Hana Stoppable, Ron's adopted baby sister in the 2002–2007 Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible
 * Hana Gitelman, a character in 2006–2010 American graphics novel series Heroes
 * Hana Tsu-Vachel, player character first introduced in 2009 in American video game series Fear Effect
 * Jung Hana, a character in 2012 South Korean drama Love Rain
 * D.Va, real name Hana Song, a South Korean character in 2016 American video game Overwatch