Hani (name)
Hani (also Hany; Arabic: هانئ hānī' "happy" or in Hawaiian "To move lightly; to touch" ) is a masculine Arabic given name and a unisex Hawaiian given name. Also Korean and Indonesian feminine given name. It is also a girl’s name in Hungarian, a diminutive of the name Ann.
Given name
- Hani ibn Urwa, one of the famous Shi'a Sahaba, and supporter of Ali
- Hani Al-Mazeedi, Kuwaiti scientist
- Hani Naser, Jordanian musician
- Hani al-Sibai, Egyptian Sunni scholar
- Hani Shaker, Egyptian singer
- Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist and hijacker pilot of American Airlines Flight 77
The given name has secondarily also given rise to the Arabic "surname" Hani:
- Nadine Hani, Lebanese television presenter
Hani means happy and easygoing; its origin is from the history of the Phoenicians as the son of God Hani-Baal who is known to be a Great War general who attacked the Romans and was the first to introduce and use elephants in warfare.
See also
- Chris Hani (assassinated South African politician), whose was an unrelated surname (of Xhosa origin?)
- Jean Hani (1917–2012), French philosopher.
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