Hannes
About 37 American babies have been named Hannes since 2003, most of them around 2011. It has not appeared in the national data since 2015. About 40 Hanneses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hannes
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 37
- Estimated living today
- 40
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 9,600th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 2003
How old the living Hanneses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 37 babies given the name since 2003, about 40 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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 Hanness
- Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995)Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Hannes Þór Halldórsson (born 1984)Icelandic filmmaker and former professional footballer
- Hannes Kolehmainen (1889–1966)Finnish long-distance runner
- Hannes Löhr (1942–2016)German footballer and manager
- Hannes Meyer (1889–1954)Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus
- Hannes Hafstein (1861–1922)Icelandic politician
- Hannes Aigner (born 1989)German kayaker
- Hannes Delcroix (born 1999)Haitian association football player
People named Hannes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Hannes peaked:
Hannes elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Hannes | 3,128 | 37th |
| Sweden boys | Hannes | 2,851 | 62nd |
| Belgium boys | Hannes | 896 | 199th |
| Italy boys | Hannes | 761 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Hannes | 326 | 353rd |
| England and Wales boys | Hannes | 25 | 3,300th |
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.
Hannes: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Hannes | 324 | 0.026% | 251st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Hannes | 1 | 0.000% | 761st |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Hannes | 1 | 0.027% | 15th |
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, Hannes is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.05% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Hannes: rank by region
In 2022, Hannes was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Hannes | 866 | 5 |
In 2004, Hannes was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Hannes | 5 | 57 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hannes appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (299th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Hannes by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 153 | 122nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hannes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Hannes | 1,794 | 3,587 |
A count of people on a register – 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
Hannes 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.