Hanna

At the 2020 census, 41,220 Americans bore the surname Hanna — 818th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,251.

By the numbers

People: 41,220
Rank: 818th
How common: 1 in 7,251
Per 100,000: 13.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a matronymic

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hanna described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.3%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hanna

William Hanna (1910–2001)American animator
Kathleen Hanna (born 1968)American musician and feminist activist
Mark Hanna (1837–1904)American businessman and politician
Lisa Hanna (born 1975)Jamaican politician and beauty queen, Miss World 1993 winner
Ciara Hanna (born 1991)American actress and model
Arthur Dion Hanna (1928–2021)Bahamian politician
Roland Hanna (1932–2002)American pianist
Richard L. Hanna (1951–2020)American politician

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

Surnames like Hanna

Also a first name

Hanna has been given to 42,137 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.