한
surname · Hangul script
Meaning: one (as a determiner numeral before a noun or classifier)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ha̠n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
한 is a surname written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 8th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 91as Hans
- DEGermany≈1 in 173as Hans
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 한 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 423 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈590,000 named Han, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hans in DE Germany, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands and 3 more and Han in CN China.
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)
one (as a determiner numeral before a noun or classifier)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
한 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈590,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Han | 76 |
| DE Germany | #19 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 173 | — | Hans | 313 |
| SE Sweden | #44 | 111,856as Hans | 1 in 91 | 112K | Hans | 168 |
| DK Denmark | #27 | 26,086as Hans | 1 in 225 | 26K | Hans | 203 |
| NO Norway | #26 | 19,176as Hans | 1 in 285 | 44K | Hans | 155 |
| CH Switzerland | #15 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 505 | 290 | Hans | 162 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 815K | 한 | 254 |
| NL Netherlands | #8 | 9as Hân | 1 in 1.9M | 20K | Hans | 191 |
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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 4
- KOSIS Korea 2015 census surnames + clans (bon'gwan)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 한 mean, and where does it come from?
- one (as a determiner numeral before a noun or classifier) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce 한?
- A machine transcription gives /ha̠n/ (IPA) for Korean.
- In which country does 한 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 594 thousand people named Han in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name 한?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 111,856 people named Hans, about 1 in 91 residents.
- How common is 한 compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, 한 is the 8th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about 한?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%ED%95%9CThe 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, “한” — the 8th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.