Hanai
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The practice of traditional Hawaiian adoption of one child into another family
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/anaj/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Hanai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 886K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
- ESSpain1 in 5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 886K (inferred from the name graph)
239 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)associated with happiness, bliss. See Hani
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
How Hanai is read
(measured from records)Hanai 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.
- Japanese57%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hanai in Japanese.
- English13%
The practice of traditional Hawaiian adoption of one child into another family.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hanai in Portuguese.
- Arabic5.3%
associated with happiness, bliss. See Hani
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Hanai 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.
239 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Hanai is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xaq, brother
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)- Takuzō Hanaib. 1868JPJapanese lawyer (1868-1931)
- Ranko Hanaib. 1918JPactress (1918-1961)
- Tetsurō Hanaib. 1924JPJapanese paleontologist (1924-2007)
- Masamitsu Hanaib. 1944JPJapanese zoologist
- Mio Hanaib. 1967JPJapanese voice actress
- Jun Hanaib. 1982JPFormer Japanese Professional Boatracer
- Rumi Hanaib. 1987JPJapanese actress
- Akie Hanaib. 1999JPJapanese amateur wrestler
- Ryo Hanaib. 2000researcher
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 239 | #31,782 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,143 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #135,427 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Hanai come from?
- associated with happiness, bliss. See Hani Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Hanai?
- In Portuguese /anaj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Hanai mean?
- In English, The practice of traditional Hawaiian adoption of one child into another family.
- In which country does Hanai have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 239 people named Hanai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hanai.
- Where is Hanai most common?
- Hanai is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 886 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hanai?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 239 people named Hanai, about 1 in 886 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hanaiThe 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, “Hanai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.