Hannam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place called Hanham in Gloucestershire, which was originally Old English Hdnum, dative plural of hdn ‘rock’, hence ‘(place) at the rocks’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhænəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hannam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 57K
- USUnited States1 in 672K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from a place called Hanham in Gloucestershire, which was originally Old English Hdnum, dative plural of hdn ‘rock’, hence ‘(place) at the rocks’. The ending -ham is by analogy with other place names with this very common unstressed ending.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hannam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Hannam | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Hannam | 145 |
| AU Australia | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Hannam | 104 |
| US United States | 495 | 1 in 672K | 670 | Hannam | 201 |
| CA Canada | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Hannam | 88 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Hannam | 57 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Hannam | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Edith Hannamb. 1878GBEnglish tennis player (1878-1951)
- Walter Hannamb. 1885AUAustralian wireless operator
- H. H. Hannamb. 1898CACanadian politician (1898–1963)
- Ken Hannamb. 1929AUAustralian film and television director (1929-2004)
- John Hannamb. 1929GBEnglish politician (born 1929)
- Dave Hannamb. 1944GBBritish association football player (born 1944)
- Gary Hannamb. 1951NZNew Zealand film producer
- John Wort Hannamb. 1968CACanadian singer
- James Hannamb. 1970GBBritish historian (1970-)
- Ryan Hannamb. 1980USAmerican 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 670 | #36,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 495 | #43,584 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 495 | #41,448 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Hannam mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place called Hanham in Gloucestershire, which was originally Old English Hdnum, dative plural of hdn ‘rock’, hence ‘(place) at the rocks’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hannam?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhænəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hannam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Hannam in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hannam.
- How common is the name Hannam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 495 people named Hannam in 2010, about 1 in 672 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hannamThe 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, “Hannam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.