Hannah comes from the Hebrew Channah and means "grace" or "favor". In the Bible Hannah prays for a child and becomes the mother of the prophet Samuel, and the name is a palindrome, spelled the same way backward and forward. Hannah was the second most popular girls' name in the United States in 2000 and stayed in the top 10 until the late 2000s; it has slowly given way since and ranks number 56 in 2025.