Han
Han is a boy's name that peaked in 2018, when it was the 3,607th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 1,400 Hans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Han
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Han crossed from girls to boys in 2014, having already crossed in 1994, and has stayed there for 12 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 80% boys, and in 2025 it was 67%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 34 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,414
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 3,607th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,208th
- First recorded
- 1969
- Girls / boys
- 646 / 768
How old the living Hans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,414 babies given the name since 1969, about 1,400 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 620 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Hans
- Han Kang (born 1970)South Korean writer
- Han Fei (279 BC–232 BC)Chinese Legalist, 280–233 BCE
- Han Yu (768–824)Chinese historian, poet, philosopher and politician
- Han Duck-soo (born 1949)Acting President of South Korea (2024; 2025), Prime Minister of South Korea (2006; 2007–2008; 2022–2025)
- Han Hyo-joo (born 1987)South Korean actress
- Han van Meegeren (1889–1947)Dutch painter and art forger
- Han Seung-soo (born 1936)South Korean politician and diplomat.; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Han Zheng (born 1954)Vice President of the People's Republic of China
People named Han with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Han is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Han is most concentrated in California (9.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Han peaked:
Han elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Han | 108 | 414th |
| England and Wales boys | Han | 96 | 2,194th |
| England and Wales girls | Han | 56 | 2,862nd |
| France boys | Han | 10 | 6,719th |
| Scotland boys | Han | 3 | 707th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Han: rank by region
In 2022, Han was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Han | 866 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Han among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Han | 979 | 2,104 |
| the Netherlands girls | Han | 36 | 150 |
| Finland girls | Han | 8 | 51 |
| Finland boys | Han | 13 | 39 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Han against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.