Hania
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative spelling of Chania: a city and regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hania is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 79K
- USUnited States1 in 334K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative spelling of Chania: a city and regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hania is read(measured from records)
Hania is one spelling over 5 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.
- Arabic20%
happy, delighted
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- French19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hania in French.
- English17%
Alternative spelling of Chania: a city and regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hania in Polish.
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hania in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Hania 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Hania | 40 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Hania | 74 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hania | 28 |
| US United States | — | 997 | 1 in 334K | 989 | Hania | 164 |
| FR France | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 1.2K | Hania | 159 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 49K | listed | Hania | 23 |
| LY Libya | #765 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Hania | 6 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names 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)
Hania 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 German, weibl. Vom., polnische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Hanna Ralphb. 1888DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress (1888-1978)
- Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslarb. 1928DEnot in their usual namefue la mejor amiga de Anelis Marie Frank mas conocida como Ana frank (1928–2022)
- Hanna Schygullab. 1943DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress and chanson singer (born 1943)
- Hanna Suchockab. 1946PLnot in their usual namePolish political figure, Prime Minister of Poland
- Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltzb. 1952PLnot in their usual namePolish politician
- Hanna Laslob. 1953ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli actress and comedian
- Hanna Azoulay Hasfarib. 1960ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli actor and screenwriter
- Hanna Pakarinenb. 1981FInot in their usual nameFinnish pop and rock singer
- Hanna R. Hallb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Hanna Glasb. 1993SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player
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 67 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.2K | #854 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 989 | #12,476 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 83 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #12,476 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- 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
- What does the name Hania mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative spelling of Chania: a city and regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hania a male or female name?
- Hania 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 Hania?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Annette and Annie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Hanna.
- In which country does Hania have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Hania in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hania.
- How common is the name Hania?
- In the United States, the national register counted 997 people named Hania in 2020, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.
- How common is Hania compared with other names?
- In Libya, Hania is the 765th most common given name of 8,449 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hania?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haniaThe 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, “Hania” — the 765th most common given name in Libya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.