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Conference oass::babynames

Title:A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy)
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Moderator:OASS::BURDEN_D
Created:Tue Feb 13 1996
Last Modified:Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:996
Total number of notes:7139

103.0. "Hannah" by 18460::KULP () Mon Jul 20 1987 12:40

    I want to get peoples opinions on a particular name.  We all have
    different ideas of what type of person goes with a name.  We are
    trying for our second (practice, practice) child and I am still
    as stuck for a girls name as I was the first time, thank goodness
    we had a boy!  What do people think of the name Hannah?  It's 
    kind of an old fashioned name, but I like it.  What kind of person
    do you picture with this name?
    
    I guess we have lots of time to decide still...
    
    Robin
    
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103.1HannahGIGI::TRACYMon Jul 20 1987 13:5715
    I like it.  In fact, even though our daughter is only seven months
    old, I'm already actively looking for girl's names in case the next 
    one is another girl--and Hannah is one of the ones we've thought
    of.  In our case, we probably won't use it because we want Ann (my
    mother-in-law's name) as a middle name and that doesn't work too
    well.  
    
    Hannah used to conjure up a picture of a fat, older woman for me.
    However, recently as "old-fashioned" names have become popular,
    it has come to make me imagine a sweet little girl with long honey
    blond hair (either in a bun or in long ponytails in ringlets) with
    big brown eyes.
    
    -Tracy
    
103.2HannahCSC32::JOHNSMy chocolate, all mine!Mon Jul 20 1987 17:435
    Very old fashioned, but I tend to like it also.  I could not picture
    a girl having the name, until I read Tracy's description.  I could
    only picture a woman in a gray bun.  :-)
    
             Carol
103.3I LOVE HANNAH TOO57419::PHINNEYTue Jul 21 1987 15:5311
    I LOVE THE NAME HANNAH!!!  MY HUSBAND AND I ARE TRYING TO DECIDE
    ON BABY NAMES EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT PREGNANT YET!  HANNAH IS ONE I
    JUST STARTED THINKING ABOUT A WEEK AGO.  I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN AS
    FAR AS IT BEING AN OLD FASHIONED NAME.  AS FAR AS PICTURING WHAT
    A CHILD/PERSON NAMED HANNAH WOULD LOOK LIKE?  I THINK I PICTURE
    A LIGHT HAIRED (STRAWBERRY BLOND), BLUE EYED, FAIR LITTLE GIRL.I
    I ALSO THINK ITS IMPORTANT HOW HANNAH WILL SOUND WITH THE FIRST
    - EXCUSE ME, LAST NAME.  MY LAST NAME IS PHINNEY SO WHAT WOULD YOU
    THINK OF HANNAH PHINNEY.  I THINK A LITTLE OF GIRL OF OURS WOULD
    LOOK AS I DECRIBED (I'M THAT WAY) SO IF MY HUSBAND LIKES THE NAME
    - HANNAH IT IS!!!  I THINK YOU MADE A GOOD CHOICE TOO!
103.434227::ATCHLEYTue Jul 21 1987 17:486
My three year old niece is a Hannah...  She's very petite, bright and active.  
I really like the name.  Good luck!!

Deb
(mother of David, Dylan and new little Riley (last Thursday))

103.5thanks!18460::KULPWed Jul 22 1987 11:467
    Thanks for the input on the name.  Now I will have something to
    help convince my husband!  (I haven't even brought it up yet as
    I'm afraid he won't like it.)  Congratulations on Riley.  I think
    that is a great name too.  
    
    Robin
    
103.6In the moviesREGENT::EPSTEINBruce EpsteinFri Jul 24 1987 11:393
    If you need arguments to support the name "Hannah",
    use the example of Woody Allen's movie "Hannah and Her Sisters".
    In the movie, Hannah was young and pretty (as befits the name).
103.7Hannah Jack TavernPICA::DROWNSthis has been a recordingWed Aug 05 1987 17:154
    
    
    You can forget about Hannah Jack, the women who ran the Tavern 
    many moons ago...The menu contains the full story.
103.8huh?SHRBIZ::KULPFri Aug 07 1987 15:565
    Okay, I'll sound dumb... who was Hannah Jack and what Tavern
    is that?
    
    Robin
    
103.9another HannahFSTTOO::FOSTERFrank Foster -- Cincinnati KidThu Aug 20 1987 17:015
	re. .-1  The Hannah Jack Tavern is in Merrimack, NH.

	re. the others:  some friends or ours had twins in 1985.
	The girl is Hannah; her brother is Noah.  
Frank
103.10too many H's??AITG::HEALYWed Sep 09 1987 19:543
    What do you folks think about "Hannah Healy"
    
    Too "H" ie?
103.11BUSY::LDRAKEWed Sep 16 1987 17:573
    Hannah is the hebrew version of Anna meaning "grace".  It also means
    "life".  My great grandmother's name was Hannah and being of Jewish 
    decent, my hebrew name is Hannah, even though my real name is Lori.
103.12I saw it as fit, soo...NHL::WATKINSThu Sep 24 1987 16:395
    I have no children, seeing as I'm only 19, but I named my first
    cat Hannah.  Not that it's just a 'cat name' but because I liked
    it.
    
    Stacie
103.13We have decided on Hannah tooARCANA::APTESTFri Sep 25 1987 18:505
    I am due in November with our second child.  The girls name has
    been Hannah since we found out I was preganant in the Spring.  My
    husband suggested the name, and I really like it.
    
    Tammy
103.14Hannah is a wonderful family nameREGENT::WORKMANWed Sep 30 1987 10:328
    We are still trying to start our family, but we have already decided
    on the name Hannah if we have a girl.  My gg-grandmother's name
    was Sarah Hannah, and I had always wanted to use that name, but Sarah
    is too common now so we have decided on Hannah Opal.  (Opal is my
    grandmother's middle name)
    
    				- Marjean-
    
103.15CLOVAX::SARANITAFri Nov 06 1987 16:5311
    re . -1
    
    Hannah Opal has a real pretty ring to it!
    
    re ."Hannah Healy"
    
    I don't think it's too "H"ie, I think it's kinda too "sing-songy"
    though.
    
    Loreen Rose
    
103.16Hi, Hannah Healy!EDUHCI::WARRENWed Nov 18 1987 18:582
    I dunno...sounds a little too h-ie for me!
    
103.17Hannah/Hana, *the* name for 87/88PLANET::MORTONWed Feb 24 1988 18:309
    Maybe Hannah/Hana will be *the* name of 1987 or 1988; it's becoming
    very popular.  My niece who will be a year old in March is named
    Hana Melissa.  My grandmother was a great Irish woman named Hannah
    McSweeney Callahan.  She was hardworking, neat as a pin, white-haired;
    Hana is happy, cherubic, chubby, a *Gerber* baby with blue eyes
    and strawberry blonde hair.  It's a great old name coming back with
    some variation - at least in our family.
    
    
103.18HANNAH MIRIAMSCOMAN::SILVERMANThu Feb 25 1988 15:446
    Being Jewish we needed to select two set of names for our daughter.
    Her "civil" name is Amanda Marie and her hebrew name is Hannah Miriam.
    She was named in honor of her great-great-grandmother Anna.  I'm
    glad some of the more traditional names are making a comeback!
    
    -SAS
103.19Hannah!GOONEY::HEITMANThu May 05 1988 17:2014
    I like the name Hannah.  I was born with the name Catherine McCarthy,
    my parents dident give any of us middle names because they felt
    we should be able to pick our own at our conformation. (I come from
    an Irish Catholic family- could you tell?) My sister Anne decided
    to take the name of my dad's mother "Veronica" I inturn decided
    to take the name of my mother's mother "Hannah". Hannah Sullivan
    passed on 8 months before my parents got married.  Unfortunatly
    I never had a chance to meet Hannah, But at family function I here
    a lot about her - she was a very strong willed person and knew what
    she wanted and worked hard to get it.  She was a very generous person
    and had "9" children so she had to be a go getter!
    
    Best of luck, and Congrats on your pregnacy!
    
103.20I'm a HannahBARTLE::MACKEENMon Jul 25 1988 19:4320
    I am a Hannah, 22, tall and with dark brown hair.  I guess I will
    turn into the old woman with my hair in a bun.  For now I enjoy
    having an old name.  When people hear it they say "That is Jewish,
    or German or Arabic (Hena)."  
    
    My full name is:  Hannah Rebecca Vesenka
    
    My mother had already fulfilled her duty of naming my siblings after
    people, so she took two weeks, in which I remained nameless as she
    was expecting a boy, before she cam up with it.
    
    It will be fun to see all the younger kids with my name!
    hrv
                
    
    
    
                  
    
    
103.21Another Hannah!BTOQA::MITCHELLFri Sep 01 1989 16:0616
    Hello!
    
    	My name is also Hannah (if anybody is still reading this note)
    
    and I am also 22 and just started work at Digital in July 89.  My
    
    full name is Hannah Elizabeth Mitchell and I really like my name!!  It's
    
    a great, unique name!  I have only met one other Hannah....I hope
    
    it doesn't get TOO popular.  By the way, I am blond and blue eyed
    
    and fair skinned....
    
    
    				
103.22GUCCI::SMILLERMrs. Shannon DiPietroThu Aug 20 1992 20:482
    I have friends due to deliver a girl in September-Hannah Elizabeth
    Cohan. It's still popular!