Nanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: either from a feminine form of the personal name Nanno (see Nanni), or from an pet form of the female personal name Marianna
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nanna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 457(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 1.3K
- SESweden1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 457 (inferred from the name graph)
12,831 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
either from a feminine form of the personal name Nanno (see Nanni), or from an pet form of the female personal name Marianna.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nanna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #159 | 12,831 | 1 in 457 | 13K | Nanna | 161 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,553 | 1 in 4K | 2.6K | Nanna | 49 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Nanna | 22 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,125 | 1 in 5K | 1.4K | Nanna | 36 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Nanna | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 610 | 1 in 9K | 1.8K | Nanna | 34 |
| IS Iceland | #622 | 274 | 1 in 1.3K | 296 | Nanna | 37 |
12,831 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nanna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, sweet, candy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Nanna är ett nordiskt namn, som har föreslagits vara bildat till den germanska stammen *nanþ- ’våga, vara djärv’ (jfr → Ferdinand, → Roland). Det kan också vara en barnspråks form av → Anna. I den nordiska mytologin är Nanna asaguden Balders maka. I den rikssvenska almanackan 3 april och i den finlandssvenska 9 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, ) Nanne: weibl. Vom., aus der
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Scandinavian: from the Old Norse mythological woman's name Nanna, a derivative of the element nanp daring.
as a word
In scn, grandmother, grandma; female equivalent of nannu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nanna Svartzb. 1890SESweden's first female professor (1890-1986)
- Nan Brittonb. 1896USnot in their usual nameMistress of Warren G. Harding (1896–1991)
- Nanna Egediusb. 1913NONorwegian figure skater (1913-1986)
- Nanna Ditzelb. 1923DKDanish furniture designer (1923–2005)
- Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttirb. 1974ISIcelandic actor
- Oh Landb. 1985DKnot in their usual nameDanish singer-songwriter and record producer
- Nanna Blondellb. 1986SESwedish actress
- Nanna Vainiob. 1991FIbadminton player
- Nanna Skodborg Merraldb. 1993DKDanish dressage rider
- Nanna Koerstz Madsenb. 1994DKDanish golfer (1994-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nanna mean, and where does it come from?
- either from a feminine form of the personal name Nanno (see Nanni), or from an pet form of the female personal name Marianna. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nanna?
- A machine transcription gives /nanna/ (IPA) for Danish.
- Is Nanna a male or female name?
- Nanna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nanna have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Nanna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nanna.
- Where is Nanna most common?
- Nanna is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 457 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nanna?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 12,831 people named Nanna, about 1 in 457 residents.
- How common is Nanna compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Nanna is the 159th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nanna?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nannaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nanna” — the 159th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.