Hanania

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a personal name based on Hebrew Hananyah, ‘answered by the Lord’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/hæneɪniə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hanania is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 802K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

415 people, 2010

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 802K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a personal name based on Hebrew Hananyah, ‘answered by the Lord’. This name was borne by various saints venerated in the Eastern Church. Compare Anania.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hanania 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.

Where Hanania is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4151 in 802K479Hanania49
BR Brazil361 in 5.9M36——
AR Argentina151 in 3M15——
NL Netherlands71 in 2.5M7—1
PL Poland61 in 6.4M4——
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——

415 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hanania is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, United States, Argentina, El Salvador

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hananía

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Israel, Malaysia

    Also written Ḥanania

  • Hebrew given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Morocco, Qatar, United States

    Also written חנניה, חנניא, חנאניא, Hananiah, Hananya

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hananía

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Mr Hanania,
InformalHi Hanania,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Hanania
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020479#47,689
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010415#50,362
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000332#57,406
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—36#131,575
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—15—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20077#71,928
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#221,839
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#334,718
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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

Where does the name Hanania come from?
from a personal name based on Hebrew Hananyah, ‘answered by the Lord’. This name was borne by various saints venerated in the Eastern Church. Compare Anania. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Hanania?
A machine transcription gives /hæneɪniə/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Hanania mean?
Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Hebrew Hananyah, ‘answered by the Lord’.
In which country does Hanania have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 415 people named Hanania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hanania.
Where is Hanania most common?
Hanania is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 802 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hanania?
In the United States, the national register counted 415 people named Hanania in 2010, about 1 in 802 thousand residents.

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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, “Hanania”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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