Hanau
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hanau is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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 Hanau 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)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7M (inferred from the name graph)
122 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled הנאו in IL Israel, US United States, NZ New Zealand and 1 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hanau 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 | 122 | 1 in 2.7M | 122 | הנאו | 8 |
| IL Israel | 101as הנאו | 1 in 86K | 101 | הנאו | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 33 | 1 in 6.4M | 33 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | הנאו | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | הנאו | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
122 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling hanau. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Reinhard II, Count of Hanaub. 1369DELord of Hanau and from 1429 Count of Hanau
- Johann Hanaub. 1500DEGerman printer
- Solomon Hanaub. 1687DEAuthors of Rabbinic literature and grammarian
- Hendricus Joannes Petrus Hanaub. 1830NLDutch painter (1830–1900)
- Heinrich, 4th Prince of Hanaub. 1842DEGerman writer (1842-1917)
- Friedrich August von Hanaub. 1864DE(1864-1940)
- Rudolph Hanaub. 1881American dentist (1881–1930)
- Marthe Hanaub. 1886FRFrench fraudster (1886–1935)
- Arthur Hanaub. 1902DEGerman professor (1902-1985)
- Peter Hanaub. 1935DEGerman judge
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 122 | #137,327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 119 | #142,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #139,729 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #133,385 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Hanau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 122 people named Hanau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled הנאו.
- Where is Hanau most common?
- Hanau is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hanau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 122 people named Hanau in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million 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/hanauThe 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, “Hanau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.