Hananiah’s name means “Jehovah Has Shown Favor; Jehovah Has Been Gracious.”

In the place of these names, the Chaldeans named the four Hebrew youths Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Of course, being slaves to a foreign power, they had no choice as to what names their captors used in referring to them.​—Daniel 1:7.