Hansén
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/hanseːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Hansén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Originally a patronymic from Hans + -sen.
- DKDenmark1 in 32(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 38
- GLGreenland1 in 56
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- #536 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 543 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32 (inferred from the name graph)
186,105 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hansen in US United States, DK Denmark, NO Norway and 4 more.
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)Originally a patronymic from Hans + -sen.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hansén 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #3 | 186,105 | 1 in 32 | 186K | Hansen | 266 |
| NO Norway | #1 | 143,637 | 1 in 38 | 144K | Hansen | 153 |
| US United States | #178 | 137,977 | 1 in 2.4K | 138K | Hansen | 543 |
| DE Germany | #78 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Hansen | 215 |
| CA Canada | #139 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 1 | Hansen | 221 |
| SE Sweden | #65 | 8,198 | 1 in 1.2K | 8.2K | Hansen | 105 |
| GL Greenland | — | 1,033 | 1 in 56 | 1K | — | 18 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #11 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 482 | — | Hansen | 3 |
186,105 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)- Theodor Hansénb. 1867SESwedish politician (1867–1947)
- David Hansénb. 1880SESwedish politician (1880–1957)
- Nils Hansénb. 1920SESwedish composer
- Mats Hansénb. 1947SESwedish artist
- Stig Hansénb. 1954SESwedish journalist (born 1954)
- Krister Hansénb. 1966SESwedish composer
- Hugo Hansénb. 1972SESwedish theatre director
- Torjus Hansénb. 1973NONorwegian footballer
- Camilla Hansénb. 1976SESwedish politician
- Linn Hansénb. 1983SESwedish poet
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 601 | #1,625 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Hansén mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a patronymic from Hans + -sen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Hansén?
- It depends on the language: in Swedish /hanseːn/; in Finnish /hɑnsen/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hansén have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 186 thousand people named Hansén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hansen.
- Where is Hansén most common?
- Hansén is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hansén?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 186,105 people named Hansén, about 1 in 32 residents.
- How common is Hansén compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Hansén is the 3rd most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hansén?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hans%C3%A9nThe 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, “Hansén” — the 3rd most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.