Hanna

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Hanna boys named Hanna

By the numbers

Total US births

42,137

Estimated living today

40,000

Median age today

24

Peak year

2000

Best rank

171st

Rank in 2025

511th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

42,005 / 132

How old the living Hannas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 42,137 babies given the name since 1880, about 40,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Variant spelling of Hannah or romanization of Hebrew חַנָּה, chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (“grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oklahoman town, named for Hanna Bullett, one of the initial settlers. As a Polish village, named for the queen Anna Jagiellon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Hannas

• Hanna Schygulla (born 1943)German actress and chanson singer
• Hanna Suchocka (born 1946)Polish political figure, Prime Minister of Poland
• Hanna Reitsch (1912–1979)German aviator
• Hanna Öberg (born 1995)Swedish biathlete
• Hanna Pakarinen (born 1981)Finnish pop and rock singer
• Hanna Ljungberg (born 1979)Swedish association football player
• Hanna Barvinok (1828–1911)Ukrainian writer born in the Russian Empire
• Hanna Glas (born 1993)Swedish association football player

People named Hanna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Hanna is most common

• CA4,526
• TX3,132
• NY2,382
• FL1,885
• OH1,710
• IL1,644
• PA1,449
• MI1,423
• IN1,104
• GA1,083

Relative to how many babies each state records, Hanna is most concentrated in Nevada (1.8×), Oregon (1.7×), Washington (1.7×), Utah (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2000

The most popular girls’ names the year Hanna peaked:

• Emily
• Hannah
• Madison
• Ashley
• Sarah
• Alexis

All the names of 2000

Hanna elsewhere

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.

Hanna: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Hanna is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.22% of children were given it – 238 of them.

Hanna: rank by region

In 2025, Hanna was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2022, Hanna was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Hanna was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland. It has come first somewhere in 6 different years.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hanna appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (138th), Province of Flemish Brabant (147th), Province of Liège (157th), Brussels-Capital Region (194th) and Province of Antwerp (326th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.

Hanna by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Hanna 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.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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.

Where Hanna lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 3,218 women called Hanna were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 47 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 5 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Hannah
• Hank
• Hans
• Hana
• Hansel
• Hanan
• Hanah
• Hanson
• Han
• Haneen
• Haniya
• Hania

Hanna against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Hanna vs Hannah
• Hanna vs Hank
• Hanna vs Hans
• Hanna vs Hana
• Hanna vs Hansel
• Hanna vs Hanan

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