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Given a perfectly good American name like Ann, she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea.
2005, Mary Monroe, In Sheep's Clothing, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 129:
"Her full name is Annie Lou. Like calling herself a snooty white girl name like Ann makes up for it." "Must I remind you that Ann is also my middle name?"
Usage notes
Popular in English since the fourteenth century due to the medieval cult of Saint Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary.
Habitational surname from Abbotts Ann in Hampshire, named for the stream that runs through it, which is most probably named with an ancient Welsh word meaning "ash tree stream". Compare Welshonn(“ash tree”).
According to the 2010 United States Census, Ann is the 34707th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 651 individuals. Ann is most common among White (43.47%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (43.47%) individuals.
Common first part of hyphenated names such as Ann-Kristin.
References
Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 12 786 females with the given name Ann living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.
Common first part of hyphenated names such as Ann-Marie or Ann-Kristin.
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 34 106 females with the given name Ann living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.