Hankin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval personal name Hankin, literally ‘little Hann’; or ‘son of Khanke’, a Yiddish female personal name, pet-form of Khane (see Hanna)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhæŋkɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hankin is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from the medieval personal name Hankin, literally ‘little Hann’; or ‘son of Khanke’, a Yiddish female personal name, pet-form of Khane (see Hanna)
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hankin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 968 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 8 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | 3 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 3 | — |
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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); 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)
Hankin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, diminutive of Hann, Hand, or Hame (Hamo); first attested Hankynus 1285
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
metronymic from Khanke (a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Khane', see Hanna), with the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the Middle English personal name Hankin, a pet form of Hann, with the addition of the hypocoristic suffix -kin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from Middle English Hamekin, a pet form of the personal name Hamo, Home (see Hammond).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from Middle English Handekin, a diminutive of the nickname Hand.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Olga Hankinb. 1852BYmidwife and Activist
- Ernest Hanbury Hankinb. 1865GBBritish scientist (1865-1939)
- Nigel Hankinb. 1920INBritish businessman
- Larry Hankinb. 1937USAmerican actor
- Cherry Hankinb. 1937NZNew Zealand literary scholar and university teacher (1937–2025)
- Ray Hankinb. 1956GBEnglish footballer and manager (born 1956)
- Simone Hankinb. 1973AUAustralian water polo player
- Sean Hankinb. 1981GBEnglish footballer (born 1981)
- Bryn Hankinb. 2008SESwedish cyclist
- Wayne HankinUSAmerican musician
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 968 | #26,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 929 | #25,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 903 | #26,887 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #122,300 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Hankin mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval personal name Hankin, literally ‘little Hann’; or ‘son of Khanke’, a Yiddish female personal name, pet-form of Khane (see Hanna) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Hankin?
- In the etymology graph, Van, Jani and Jaan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hankin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæŋkɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hankin have the most bearers?
- Hankin is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hankin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hankinThe 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, “Hankin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.