Hannah

given name · Latin script

Meaning: from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, from Hebrew Ghana, ‘he has favoured me’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/hænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hannah 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.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 826(measured from records)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 1.6K
  • CZCzechia1 in 37as Hana

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 Hannah 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)

402,723 people, 2020

#424 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
600 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 826 (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HannahLatin(measured from records)
한나Hangul(measured from records)
ХанаCyrillic(measured from records)
แฮนนาThai(measured from records)
ΧάναGreek(measured from records)
হাননাহBengali(measured from records)
ჰანაGeorgian(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hanna in UA Ukraine, PL Poland, SE Sweden and 1 more 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)

from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, from Hebrew Ghana, ‘he has favoured me’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hannah 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.

Where Hannah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#402402,7231 in 826402KHannah600
CZ Czechia#25291,802as Hana1 in 37292KHana168
UA Ukraine#52≈250,000 est.≈1 in 174—Hanna100
PL Poland#113231,647as Hanna1 in 165232KHanna175
NG Nigeria#310≈130,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Hannah101
SE Sweden#15252,758as Hanna1 in 19353KHanna111
FI Finland#2724,000as Hanna1 in 23235KHanna128

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hannah is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Han'Nah, Hännäh, Hąnnąh, Hannâh, Hannáh

  • Polish given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Ханнах, Hännäh, Hannáh, Khannakh, Hānnàh

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Hanńâh, Hànnah

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hannäh

  • Turkish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Türkiye, Philippines

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Hâñņàh, Hannàh

71 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hannah 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.

  • A timeless biblical name meaning 'grace' or 'favor', popular in both Jewish and Christian traditions.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • Hannah is revered as a model of perseverance in prayer and faithfulness to vows. In Jewish tradition, she is counted among the seven prophetesses, and her manner of silent prayer influenced the rabbinic laws regarding the Amidah. In Christian typology, she prefigures the Virgin Mary.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In English, Form of Anne; once common in Ireland, also used as a pet form of Johanna and Nora.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • Biblical name, borne by the mother of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 1:2), Hebrew Hanna. It is derived from a Hebrew word meaning ‘He (i.e. God) has favoured me (i.e. with a child)’. See also Anne. This form of the name was taken up as a given name by the Puritans in the 16th and 17th centuries. origin). It may in part also be used as a pet form of Harding.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In German, a female given name from Biblical Hebrew, variant of Hanna

    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)

1850190019502000Hannah Chaplin, b. 1865Hannah Höch, b. 1889Hannah Arendt, b. 1906Rachel Weisz, b. 1970Hannah Waddingham, b. 1974Hannah Harper, b. 1982Jess Glynne, b. 1989Hannah John-Kamen, b. 1989Hannah Murray, b. 1989Dakota Fanning, b. 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)

InformalHi Hannah,

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 136 sources across 65 countries.

Official registers attesting Hannah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020402K#117
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6.2K#542
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20204.5K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20254K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.6K#397
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20261.6K#397
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1K#801
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020500#117
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—467—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—150#1,102
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—75#1,175

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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)
  • 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

What does the name Hannah mean, and where does it come from?
from the medieval female personal name Hannah or Anna, from Hebrew Ghana, ‘he has favoured me’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Is Hannah a male or female name?
Hannah 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.
In which country does Hannah 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 it is most often spelled hannah.
Where is Hannah most common?
Hannah is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 826 people carrying it.
What are other forms of the name Hannah?
In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Hannah?
In the United States, the national register counted 402,723 people named Hannah in 2020, about 1 in 826 residents.
How common is Hannah compared with other names?
In the United States, Hannah is the 402nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Hannah?
A machine transcription gives /hænə/ (IPA) for English.

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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, “Hannah” — the 402nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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