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Around the world, ハンソン (Hanson , Hansson , ハンソン) is a common unisex first name. The forename ハンソン is habitual in Macao, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Hong Kong, and Nigeria, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Nigeria, Ghana, and the United States. More frequently, ハンソン is the last name as well as the forename.
ハンソン is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Hanson , the fictional character from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.