Hana
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hana 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. Recorded meaning: from the Arabic female personal name Hand’ ‘bliss’, ‘happiness’.
- CZCzechia1 in 37(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 165as Hanna
- UAUkraine≈1 in 174as Hanna
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 Hana 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 37 (inferred from the name graph)
402,723 named Hannah, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hanna in UA Ukraine, PL Poland, SE Sweden and 1 more and Hannah in US United States, NG Nigeria.
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 Arabic female personal name Hand’ ‘bliss’, ‘happiness’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hana 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 | 291,802 | 1 in 37 | 292K | Hana | 168 |
| UA Ukraine | #52 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 174 | — | Hanna | 100 |
| PL Poland | #113 | 231,647as Hanna | 1 in 165 | 232K | Hanna | 175 |
| NG Nigeria | #310 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Hannah | 101 |
| SE Sweden | #152 | 52,758as Hanna | 1 in 193 | 53K | Hanna | 111 |
| FI Finland | #27 | 24,000as Hanna | 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)
Hana 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.
In Czech, slur, insult, defamation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Hana (Hanaa) är ett namn som kan ha flera bakgrunder. Det är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’glädje’, men det är också ett japanskt namn som betyder ’blomma’. Hana kan även vara en tjeckisk skrivning av → Hanna.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Felicidad, paz de espíritu
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
F lor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Joy.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Hanna Azoulay Hasfarib. 1960ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli actor and screenwriter
- Hana Mandlíkováb. 1962AUCzech tennis player
- Lee Ha-nab. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Hana Vagnerováb. 1983CZCzech actress
- Hana Soukupováb. 1985CZCzech model
- Hana Mae Leeb. 1988USAmerican actress
- Hana Hataeb. 1988USAmerican actress
- Hana Sugisakib. 1997JPJapanese actress
- Hana Kimurab. 1997JPJapanese professional wrestler (1997–2020)
- Hana Hayesb. 1999USAmerican actress
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 109 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 292K | #13 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 146K | #13 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,883 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.8K | #1,136 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 998 | #495 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 998 | #495 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 436 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 250 | #1,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 116 | #1,883 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 82 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- 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
- What does the name Hana mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Arabic female personal name Hand’ ‘bliss’, ‘happiness’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Hana a male or female name?
- Hana 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 Hana 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 Hana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hana is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 37 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Hana?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Hana?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 291,802 people named Hana, about 1 in 37 residents.
- How common is Hana compared with other names?
- In the United States, Hana 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/hanaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hana” — the 402nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.