Hansel

At the 2020 census, 3,562 Americans bore the surname Hansel — 8,830th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 83,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,562
Rank: 8,830th
How common: 1 in 83,900
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hansel

Marion Hänsel (1949–2020)Belgian film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor

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

Surnames like Hansel

Also a first name

Hansel has been given to 3,636 American babies as a first name since 1905, peaking in 2021. 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.