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Nana.

Name formation documented in dictionary sources

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Language / origin
Origin not established
Gender context
Girl
Letters
4
Words
1
Syllables / divisions
2
First letter
N
Evidence layers
1

Synthetic Filipino reading. Personal and regional pronunciations can differ.

THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT

The story behind Nana

Nana is recorded as a female given name in Cebuano. Its lexical definition links this spelling with the longer name or names Ana and Belina as a short or familiar form.

Pronunciation & syllables

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Cebuano

Na · na2 source divisions

Dictionary reading & contributors ↗

Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0

Origin and name formation

Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.

Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads

PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS

Nana in the birth records

Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.

No exact-spelling count for Nana appears in the PSA top-ten tables included here. This does not mean zero births or prove that the name is rare.

Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →

Similar names to Nana

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What rhymes with Nana?

No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.

Names with a similar written ending

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AdrianaAnaAnianaArianaAureianaCiprianaCresencianaDana

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  1. Wiktionary contributors — Nana (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)

    Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.

  2. Wiktionary contributors — Nana (English) (opens in a new tab)

    Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.