Hanžel
surname · Latin script
Hanžel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Hansel, a pet form of the personal name Johannes (see John).
- SKSlovakia1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 39K
- PLPoland1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
843 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from the personal name Hansel, a pet form of the personal name Johannes (see John).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hanžel 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.
843 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Danica Burg-Hanželb. 1934SISlovene physicist
- Slavko Hanželb. 2000SISlovenian politician
- Darko HanželSIresearcher
- Karin Kanc-HanželSIresearcher
- Jurij HanzelSIresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 17 | #25,321 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15 | — |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hanžel mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Hansel, a pet form of the personal name Johannes (see John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hanžel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 843 people named Hanžel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hanžel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hanžel is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 8.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hanžel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 843 people named Hanžel in 2010, about 1 in 395 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hanžel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/han%C5%BEelThe 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, “Hanžel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.