Ninon

Ninon is a French feminine name that originated as a pet form of Anne, itself derived from the Hebrew Hannah, meaning grace or favor. It became widely known through Ninon de l'Enclos, the celebrated seventeenth-century French courtesan, writer, and wit whose salon attracted many of the leading intellectual figures of her era. The name belongs to a cluster of French diminutives of Anne that also includes Nanon and Nannon.