A baptismal name for a girl
Anna
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Anna
Righteous AnnaJuly 25Wife of the righteous Joachim and mother of the Virgin Mary, maternal grandmother of Jesus Christ.
Prophet Anna the ProphetessFebruary 3Elderly woman of the tribe of Asher who proclaimed the Savior in the Temple when the Child was brought to Jerusalem.
Right-Believing Anna of NovgorodFebruary 10Swedish princess and grand princess of Kiev from 1019, wife of Yaroslav the Wise, who died in 1050.
New Martyr Anna DemidovaMaid of Tsarina Alexandra, who stayed with the Romanov family and was killed with them at Yekaterinburg in 1918.
Right-Believing Anna of KashinJune 12Wife of Mikhail of Tver, who lost almost all her relatives in princely strife; patron of Kashin and Tver.
Venerable Martyr Anna MakandinaMarch 1Nun arrested in February 1938 and shot at the Butovo firing range on 8 March 1938; canonized in 2000..jpg)
Venerable Anna Vsevolodovna of KyivNovember 3Daughter of Vsevolod I, princess of Kyiv, known for founding a school for girls; died in 1112.- Martyr Anna ZertsalovaNovember 14Spiritual writer from Moscow, executed at the Butovo firing range on 27 November 1937; canonized in 2000.
Venerable Anna Makkavaiou of Asia MinorJanuary 12Greek nun born at New Ephesus in 1893, who lived at the Ascension of the Savior Monastery in Drama; she died in 1981.- Venerable Martyr Anna of RybinskFebruary 26Russian nun, the daughter of a priest, martyred at Yaroslavl in 1937 and canonized in 2000.
- Martyr Anna SerovaJuly 31Russian peasant woman from the Kostroma region, martyred in the early 1940s; canonized in 2000.
- Right-Believing Anna of NovgorodFebruary 10
Questions
The name day of Anna is September 9, the feast of Righteous Anna. It is also kept on July 25, February 3, February 10, June 12, March 1, November 3, November 14, January 12.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Anna, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Anna is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Righteous Anna as patron.