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Your opinion on Hannah

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Sunshinegalhere · 18/06/2025 11:30

What’s your opinion on the name Hannah?

Bonus points for middle name suggestions too

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Pemba · 18/06/2025 12:30

I do like it, but I like Anna more - which is not 'older lady' at all, it's timeless. It's generally liked a lot when suggested in this section.

Hannah has been popular for years, probably less popular right now. I think maybe it peaked in the 80s. I was born in the 60s and didn't go to school with any Hannahs. However I can remember my auntie, pregnant in the early 70s, telling my mum she was considering Hannah for the baby. She would have been one of the first!

(said cousin is 51 now and her parents went with Victoria in the end, very 70s!)

DiamondThrone · 18/06/2025 12:21

SpacedOutOut · 18/06/2025 11:53

Mines almost 23! 😂

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Aha!! 😆

scotspancake86 · 18/06/2025 12:05

Ohhh I love the name Hannah! Hannah's are always lovely peopleSmile.

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Sunshinegalhere · 18/06/2025 12:01

BootballJoy · 18/06/2025 11:54

I've always much preferred Anna. My mum used to say Hannah was an old lady's name and she couldn't understand how popular it became in the 80s! I've never liked the H bits.

See for me it would be the other way round! Anna seems like an older ladies name to me than Hannah for some reason!

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24Dogcuddler · 18/06/2025 11:57

Live not like oops

24Dogcuddler · 18/06/2025 11:56

Beautiful if you don’t like somewhere where they don’t pronounce the H
My cousin had a baby years ago and an elderly aunt told us “ she’s calling her Anna with an aitch “

BootballJoy · 18/06/2025 11:54

I've always much preferred Anna. My mum used to say Hannah was an old lady's name and she couldn't understand how popular it became in the 80s! I've never liked the H bits.

Hollyhobbi · 18/06/2025 11:53

I know a 21 year old Hannah.

SpacedOutOut · 18/06/2025 11:53

DiamondThrone · 18/06/2025 11:37

There seemed to be a lot around who would be about twenty five now.

Mines almost 23! 😂

DiamondThrone · 18/06/2025 11:37

There seemed to be a lot around who would be about twenty five now.

Coffeeishot · 18/06/2025 11:36

I like it it's timeless the Hannahs i know are 84 30 and 12, not from the same family either. I probably would go for middle name that means something to you.

Steakbreake · 18/06/2025 11:33

I like it

astonishini · 18/06/2025 11:32

I like it, it was on our shortlist for girls. Not much not to like about it.