Hanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, from Hebrew Ghana, ‘he has favoured me’; (ii) ‘person from Hannethe’, an unidentified Scottish place of unknown origin; (iii) from Irish Gael
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Czechia it is the 25th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 165(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 174
- SESweden1 in 193
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hanna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #424 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 600 (measured from records)
- 1 in 165 (inferred from the name graph)
402,723 named Hannah, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hannah in US United States, NG Nigeria and Hana in CZ Czechia.
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)
- HebrewGhana(measured from records)
- Irish GaelicÓ(measured from records)
(i) from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, from Hebrew Ghana, ‘he has favoured me’; (ii) ‘person from Hannethe’, an unidentified Scottish place of unknown origin; (iii) from Irish Gaelic Ó hAnnaigh, ‘descendant of Annach’, a personal name meaning ‘inquiry’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hanna 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #402 | 402,723as Hannah | 1 in 826 | 402K | Hannah | 600 |
| CZ Czechia | #25 | 291,802as Hana | 1 in 37 | 292K | Hana | 168 |
| UA Ukraine | #52 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 174 | — | Hanna | 100 |
| PL Poland | #113 | 231,647 | 1 in 165 | 232K | Hanna | 175 |
| NG Nigeria | #310 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Hannah | 101 |
| SE Sweden | #152 | 52,758 | 1 in 193 | 53K | Hanna | 111 |
| FI Finland | #27 | 24,000 | 1 in 232 | 35K | Hanna | 128 |
402,723 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Hanna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, ultimately from Hebrew Ghana ‘He (God) has favored me’ (i.e. with a child). The name is borne in the Bible by the mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 1: 1-28), and there is a tradition (unsupported by Biblical evidence) that it was the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary; this St. Anne was a popular figure in medieval art and legend.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAnnaigh ‘descendant of Annach’, a byname of uncertain meaning.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of the personal name Hans.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Hannah
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Hanna är ett bibliskt namn av hebreiskt ursprung, bildat till hebreiskt channā ’nåd’. Hanna är namnet på Samuels mor i Gamla testamentet, på grekiska transkriberat → Anna. Det är också en nordisk smekform till → Johanna. Namnet har varit ett av de mest populära ända sedan 1980-talet men är nu på nedåtgående. I den rikssvenska almanackan 5 januari och i den finlandssvenska 21 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Hannah Chaplinb. 1865GBEnglish stage and musical actress (1866–1928)
- Hannah Arendtb. 1906USGerman-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
- Hanna Suchockab. 1946PLPolish political figure, Prime Minister of Poland
- Rachel Weiszb. 1970GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1970)
- Hanna Pakarinenb. 1981FIFinnish pop and rock singer
- Hannah Harperb. 1982GBEnglish pornographic actress and director
- Jess Glynneb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer (born 1989)
- Hannah John-Kamenb. 1989GBBritish actress
- Hannah Murrayb. 1989GBEnglish actress
- Dakota Fanningb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1994)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 138 sources across 66 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 232K | #25 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 232K | #25 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 53K | #70 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 44K | #963 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35K | #48 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 32K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 24K | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 3.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 842 | #963 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 526 | #632 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Hanna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 403 thousand people named Hannah, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hanna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hanna is densest in Poland — about 1 in 165 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Hanna a male or female name?
- Hanna is a female 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.
- What does the name Hanna mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, from Hebrew Ghana, ‘he has favoured me’; (ii) ‘person from Hannethe’, an unidentified Scottish place of unknown origin; (iii) from Irish Gael… Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Hanna?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages; Hania, Jannicke and Jannike are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Johanna.
- How do you pronounce Hanna?
- A machine transcription gives /hænə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- How common is the name Hanna?
- In Poland, the national register counted 231,647 people named Hanna in 2026, about 1 in 165 residents.
- How common is Hanna compared with other names?
- In the United States, Hanna is the 402nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hannaThe 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, “Hanna” — the 402nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.