Hannah as First Name

Hannah Arendt            Origin/Culture/Country: German
Hannah Arendt: German political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular.

Hannah Cornett            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Hannah Cornett: s an American actress, athlete, and model.

Hannah Jane Arnett Wilson            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Hannah Jane Arnett Wilson: is a swimmer from Hong Kong,

Hannah Frank            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish
Hannah Frank: is an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland.Hannah was the daughter of a Russian refugee, Charles Frank, a notable camera maker, and grew up in the Laurieston district of the Gorbals. She studied art at the University of Glasgow. She had a number of poems, and later a series of drawings, published in the University magazine, all of which appeared under the name AL AARAAF. This is the title of a long poem by Edgar Allan Poe which had special significance for her. It was the name given by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to a mysterious star which suddenly appeared in the heavens, and after growing brighter and brighter for a few days, suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again. She graduated in 1930.

Hannah Szenes            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungarian
Hannah Szenes: was a Hungarian Jew, one of 37 Jews living in Palestine, now Israel, who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during the Second World War in order to help save the Jews of Hungary, who were about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border, imprisoned and tortured, but she refused to reveal details of her mission, and was eventually tried and executed by firing squad. She is regarded as a national heroine in Israel, where several streets and a kibbutz are named after her and her poetry is widely known.

Avoiding Unisex Names Names, by their very nature, are meant to reflect the gender of the individual. This is a truth universally acknowledged regardless of the culture to which you belong. However, like everything else, there are exceptions to this rule and the confusion this might create....More..