Hanafin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAinbhthm (modernized as 6 hAinifm) ‘descendant ofAinbhthm’, a personal name derived from ainbhwth ‘non-peace’, ‘storm’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhænəfɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hanafin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 433Kas Ханафин(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 731K
- NONorway1 in 1.4M
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 Hanafin 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 731K (inferred from the name graph)
455 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ханафин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAinbhthm (modernized as 6 hAinifm) ‘descendant ofAinbhthm’, a personal name derived from ainbhwth ‘non-peace’, ‘storm’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hanafin 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 | 455 | 1 in 731K | 476 | — | 3 |
| RU Russia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Ханафин | 81 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 170as Ханафин | 1 in 112K | 170 | Ханафин | 22 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Ханафин | 7 |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | — |
455 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Will Hanafinb. 1901IEIrish journalist
- Des Hanafinb. 1930IEIrish politician (1930-2017)
- Hope Hanafinb. 1953costume designer
- Mary Hanafinb. 1959IEIrish politician
- John Hanafinb. 1960IEIrish politician
- Lorcan Hanafinb. 2002GBBritish racing driver (born 2002)
- Sinead Hanafinresearcher
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 476 | #47,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 455 | #46,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 389 | #50,468 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #73,477 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Hanafin mean, and where does it come from?
- shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAinbhthm (modernized as 6 hAinifm) ‘descendant ofAinbhthm’, a personal name derived from ainbhwth ‘non-peace’, ‘storm’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hanafin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhænəfɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hanafin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 455 people named Hanafin, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hanafin most common?
- Hanafin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 731 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hanafin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 455 people named Hanafin in 2010, about 1 in 731 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hanafinThe 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, “Hanafin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.