Hán
given name · Latin script
Meaning: China
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Hán is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 30K
- ALAlbania1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈75,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hân in VN Vietnam and Han in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)China
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hán is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Nhà Hán; triều đại bị Vương Mãng cướp ngôi.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Icelandic, A third-person singular pronoun for a living person of unspecified gender; they, thon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, khan (a caravanserai, a resting place for a traveling caravan)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 佄
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tian Hanb. 1898CNChinese playwright, screenwriter, songwriter (1898-1968)
- Wang Hanb. 1991CNChinese diver (1991-)
- Xiao Hanb. 1994CNChinese speed skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hán mean, and where does it come from?
- China Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hán a male or female name?
- Hán is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Hán?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Hán in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hân. After it come United States, Sweden, Spain and Albania; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,006 people named Hán in 2020, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Hán compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hán is the 156th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hán” — the 156th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.