Hanife

given name · Latin script

Meaning: 1. İslam dinine sımsıkı bağlı olan kimse

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Hanife is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Macedonia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 441Kas Ханифе(inferred from the name graph)
  • ALAlbania1 in 3.4K
  • SISlovenia1 in 68K

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 Hanife 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.

North Macedonia (measured from records)

955 named Ханифе

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HanifeLatin(measured from records)
ХанифеCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Ханифе in MK North Macedonia.

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)

recorded in Turkish

1. İslam dinine sımsıkı bağlı olan kimse. 2. İslamiyetten önce tek Tanrı'ya inanan.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hanife 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 Hanife is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MK North Macedonia—955as Ханифе1 in 2.2K955Ханифе3
AL Albania—9061 in 3.4K906——
US United States—1721 in 1.9M164Hanife2
NL Netherlands—1511 in 114K151—1
SE Sweden—1291 in 79K129—1
DK Denmark—801 in 73K80——
SI Slovenia—311 in 68K31Hanife1
BG Bulgaria#286≈16 est.≈1 in 441K—Hanife17

955 people counted by State Statistical Office — living population names. 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: State Statistical Office — living population names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names. 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)

Hanife is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Syria

    Also written Hanifé

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hanifé, Hánífé, Hånife

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Türkiye

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Hanifé

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)

19601970198019902000Hanife Öztürk Akkartal, b. 1964Hanife Gashi, b. 1968Hanife Demiryol, b. 1992

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)

InformalMerhaba Hanife,Hi Hanife, (English)

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 32 sources across 19 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България

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

How do you pronounce Hanife?
A machine transcription gives /han̪ife/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Hanife mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. İslam dinine sımsıkı bağlı olan kimse.
Is Hanife a male or female name?
Hanife 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 Hanife?
In the etymology graph, Hanifa is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Hanife have the most bearers?
In North Macedonia, the national register counted about 955 people named Ханифе, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hanife most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hanife is densest in Albania — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though North Macedonia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hanife?
In Albania, the national register counted 906 people named Hanife, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
How common is Hanife compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Hanife is the 286th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Hanife” — the 286th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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