Hanna

Derived from the Hebrew root for favor, filtered through Continental European spellings that dropped the final consonant. German and Scandinavian immigrants carried this spelling into nineteenth-century America, where it sat quietly until catching the slipstream of the late-nineties Hannah surge.

A Hanna is almost certainly in her mid-twenties. The missing terminal letter suggests either Continental family ties or parents who wanted a cleaner line on the birth certificate. The name reads lighter than its palindromic twin, though it guarantees a lifetime of saying 'no H at the end' at the pharmacy counter.