Hanne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a female given name shortened from Johanne (“Jane”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hanə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hanne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Denmark it is the 30th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 170(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 363
- SYSyria≈1 in 835as Hanan
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 Hanne 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- 1 in 170 (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 named Hanan, est.
recorded for this name
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 Hanan in EG Egypt, SY Syria, MA Morocco and 2 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)
a female given name shortened from Johanne (“Jane”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hanne is read(measured from records)
Hanne is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Danish42%
a female given name shortened from Johanne (“Jane”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hanne in Norwegian.
- German11%
a diminutive of the female given name Johanne, masculine equivalent Hannes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hanne in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hanne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #113 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Hanan | 123 |
| MA Morocco | #133 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 941 | — | Hanan | 62 |
| DK Denmark | #30 | 34,482 | 1 in 170 | 34K | Hanne | 156 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #123 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Hanan | 146 |
| SY Syria | #82 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 835 | — | Hanan | 37 |
| NO Norway | #53 | 15,042 | 1 in 363 | 48K | Hanne | 126 |
| KW Kuwait | #66 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 859 | — | Hanan | 86 |
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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Hanne is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Hanne är en dansk och norsk form av → Hanna och en kortform av Johanne (→ Johanna). Namnet har varit mycket vanligt i Danmark och Norge.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
German: short form of JOHANNA . The name is often used in combinations such as Hannelore .
as a word
In Estonian, illative singular of hani
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cim, color
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)
- Hanne Brinkmannb. 1895DEGerman actress (1895–1984)
- Hanne Hiobb. 1923DEGerman actress (1923-2009)
- Hanne Wiederb. 1925DEGerman television and film actress (1925-1990)
- Hanne Borchseniusb. 1935DKactress (1935–2012)
- Hanne Darbovenb. 1941DEGerman artist (1941-2009)
- Hanne Kroghb. 1956NONorwegian singer
- Hanne Wolharnb. 1968DEGerman actress
- Hanne Blankb. 1969USHistorian, writer, editor, activist, public speaker. Recent author of Virgin: The Untouched History (2007)
- Hanne Gaby Odieleb. 1988BEBelgian model
- Hanne Desmetb. 1996BEBelgian short track speed skater
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)
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 65 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 48K | #63 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 34K | #4 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 15K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2020 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Hanne mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name shortened from Johanne (“Jane”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hanne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Hanan in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hanne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hanne is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 170 people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Hanne?
- A machine transcription gives /hanə/ (IPA) for Danish.
- Is Hanne a male or female name?
- Hanne 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.
- What are other forms of the name Hanne?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Johanna and Johanne.
- How common is the name Hanne?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 34,482 people named Hanne, about 1 in 170 residents.
- How common is Hanne compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Hanne is the 113th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hanne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hanneThe 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, “Hanne” — the 113th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.