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Ananias

Hebrew roots

Language contexts for this entry: English, Spanish, German and 2 more

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masculineLatin script

/ænəˈnaɪəs/ · English

Origin: Hebrew
5 language contexts: English Spanish German +2 more
Follow the evidence: 6 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Ananias

Ananias is a masculine given name documented in English, Spanish, German and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה via Ancient Greek.

Hebrew origin

Source-reported

From Ancient Greek Ἀνανίας (Ananías), from Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה (khananyá).

Follow the language links in this account

Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Ancient Greek
Hebrew

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Read the cited Wiktionary entry

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (6)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q20675793
Masculine usage in English · Wiktionary: Ananias
Masculine usage in Portuguese · Wiktionary: Ananias
Masculine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Ananias
Masculine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Ananias
Masculine usage in German · Polish Wiktionary: Ananias

Explore all 5 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Ananias” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q20675793.

All pronunciation details (4)

/ænəˈnaɪəs/ — English
/a.naˈni.ɐs/ — Portuguese (Brazil)
/a.naˈni.ɐʃ/ — Portuguese (Rio de Janeiro)
/ɐ.nɐˈni.ɐʃ/ — Portuguese (Portugal)

02 / Across borders

Where Ananias is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Ananias’s connections around the world.

2 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 55 boys (rank 2451). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 20 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Ananias

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 55; applications; Rank #2,451
Peak year: 2025; 55 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Ananias in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	5	892	observed
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	5	974	observed
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	7	1,050	observed
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	5	1,205	observed
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	7	1,314	observed
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	5	2,544	observed
1913	10	1,803	observed
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	5	3,825	observed
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	9	2,877	observed
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	8	3,214	observed
1922	9	3,014	observed
1923	6	3,822	observed
1924	8	3,260	observed
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	9	2,904	observed
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	13	2,270	observed
1929	6	3,559	observed
1930	10	2,609	observed
1931	6	3,390	observed
1932	7	3,092	observed
1933	6	3,268	observed
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	7	2,951	observed
1936	5	3,549	observed
1937	5	3,518	observed
1938	9	2,479	observed
1939	8	2,609	observed
1940	6	3,130	observed
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	5	3,538	observed
1944	7	2,862	observed
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	6	3,370	observed
1948	5	3,668	observed
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	6	3,329	observed
1951	12	2,246	observed
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	7	3,143	observed
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	7	3,201	observed
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	6	3,619	observed
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	7	3,356	observed
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	6	4,375	observed
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	5	5,101	observed
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	5	5,587	observed
1977	6	5,123	observed
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	8	4,403	observed
1980	5	6,250	observed
1981	5	6,262	observed
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	5	6,238	observed
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	6	5,785	observed
1986	5	6,721	observed
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	7	6,229	observed
1990	7	6,415	observed
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	8	6,128	observed
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	6	7,770	observed
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	8	6,496	observed
1997	6	8,110	observed
1998	6	8,479	observed
1999	6	8,704	observed
2000	13	5,297	observed
2001	8	7,536	observed
2002	11	6,088	observed
2003	9	7,245	observed
2004	10	6,976	observed
2005	8	8,299	observed
2006	15	5,525	observed
2007	17	5,210	observed
2008	12	6,763	observed
2009	14	6,095	observed
2010	9	8,139	observed
2011	13	6,256	observed
2012	17	5,256	observed
2013	17	5,171	observed
2014	21	4,538	observed
2015	27	3,882	observed
2016	36	3,161	observed
2017	12	6,685	observed
2018	32	3,446	observed
2019	41	2,943	observed
2020	40	2,925	observed
2021	36	3,242	observed
2022	35	3,344	observed
2023	41	3,005	observed
2024	48	2,715	observed
2025	55	2,451	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Ananias” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
ANANIAS— “grace of the Lord”
The usual changes were at work upon the Jewish names Hannah and Hananiah. Greek had made the first 'Anna, the second Ananias, or Annas. Indeed Hannah is only known, as such, to the readers of the English version of the Bible, from whom the Irish have taken it to represent their native Ainè (joy). All the rest of Europe calls her, as well as the aged prophetess in the temple, Anne.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section V (Names from Chaanach) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro
1989–2016
Brazilian footballer (1989-2016)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Ananias with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms5

Wikidata Q20675793CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section V (Names from Chaanach)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates2

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Ananias

Ananias is a masculine given name documented in English, Spanish, German and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה via Ancient Greek.

Hebrew origin

Source-reported

From Ancient Greek Ἀνανίας (Ananías), from Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה (khananyá).

Follow the language links in this account

Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Ancient Greek
Hebrew

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Read the cited Wiktionary entry

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (6)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q20675793
Masculine usage in English · Wiktionary: Ananias
Masculine usage in Portuguese · Wiktionary: Ananias
Masculine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Ananias
Masculine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Ananias
Masculine usage in German · Polish Wiktionary: Ananias

Explore all 5 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Ananias” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q20675793.

All pronunciation details (4)

/ænəˈnaɪəs/ — English
/a.naˈni.ɐs/ — Portuguese (Brazil)
/a.naˈni.ɐʃ/ — Portuguese (Rio de Janeiro)
/ɐ.nɐˈni.ɐʃ/ — Portuguese (Portugal)

Where Ananias is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Ananias’s connections around the world.

2 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 55 boys (rank 2451). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 20 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Ananias

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 55; applications; Rank #2,451
Peak year: 2025; 55 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Ananias in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	5	892	observed
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	5	974	observed
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	7	1,050	observed
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	5	1,205	observed
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	7	1,314	observed
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	5	2,544	observed
1913	10	1,803	observed
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	5	3,825	observed
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	9	2,877	observed
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	8	3,214	observed
1922	9	3,014	observed
1923	6	3,822	observed
1924	8	3,260	observed
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	9	2,904	observed
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	13	2,270	observed
1929	6	3,559	observed
1930	10	2,609	observed
1931	6	3,390	observed
1932	7	3,092	observed
1933	6	3,268	observed
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	7	2,951	observed
1936	5	3,549	observed
1937	5	3,518	observed
1938	9	2,479	observed
1939	8	2,609	observed
1940	6	3,130	observed
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	5	3,538	observed
1944	7	2,862	observed
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	6	3,370	observed
1948	5	3,668	observed
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	6	3,329	observed
1951	12	2,246	observed
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	7	3,143	observed
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	7	3,201	observed
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	6	3,619	observed
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	7	3,356	observed
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	6	4,375	observed
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	5	5,101	observed
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	5	5,587	observed
1977	6	5,123	observed
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	8	4,403	observed
1980	5	6,250	observed
1981	5	6,262	observed
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	5	6,238	observed
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	6	5,785	observed
1986	5	6,721	observed
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	7	6,229	observed
1990	7	6,415	observed
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	8	6,128	observed
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	6	7,770	observed
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	8	6,496	observed
1997	6	8,110	observed
1998	6	8,479	observed
1999	6	8,704	observed
2000	13	5,297	observed
2001	8	7,536	observed
2002	11	6,088	observed
2003	9	7,245	observed
2004	10	6,976	observed
2005	8	8,299	observed
2006	15	5,525	observed
2007	17	5,210	observed
2008	12	6,763	observed
2009	14	6,095	observed
2010	9	8,139	observed
2011	13	6,256	observed
2012	17	5,256	observed
2013	17	5,171	observed
2014	21	4,538	observed
2015	27	3,882	observed
2016	36	3,161	observed
2017	12	6,685	observed
2018	32	3,446	observed
2019	41	2,943	observed
2020	40	2,925	observed
2021	36	3,242	observed
2022	35	3,344	observed
2023	41	3,005	observed
2024	48	2,715	observed
2025	55	2,451	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
ANANIAS— “grace of the Lord”
The usual changes were at work upon the Jewish names Hannah and Hananiah. Greek had made the first 'Anna, the second Ananias, or Annas. Indeed Hannah is only known, as such, to the readers of the English version of the Bible, from whom the Irish have taken it to represent their native Ainè (joy). All the rest of Europe calls her, as well as the aged prophetess in the temple, Anne.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section V (Names from Chaanach) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro
1989–2016
Brazilian footballer (1989-2016)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms5

Wikidata Q20675793CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: AnaniasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section V (Names from Chaanach)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates2

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Ananias

About Ananias

Hebrew origin

Where Ananias is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro

Anania

Ananías

Ananiasz

Chananja

Chananya

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Ananias

About Ananias

Hebrew origin

Where Ananias is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro

Anania

Ananías

Ananiasz

Chananja

Chananya

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Ananias

Hebrew origin

Where Ananias is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Ananias

Hebrew origin

Where Ananias is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page