Hannele

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Hannele är ursprungligen en smekform till → Hanna och → Johanna

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

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

Hannele is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland
  • SESweden
  • AUAustralia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Swedish

Hannele är ursprungligen en smekform till → Hanna och → Johanna. I Finland är Hannele (vid sidan av Hanneli) även en finsk form av → Johanna. I den rikssvenska almanackan 5 januari och i den finlandssvenska 21 juli.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hannele counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Hannele is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#170—94KHannele28
US United States———Hannele63
SE Sweden——4.1KHannele23
DE Germany———Hannele31
AU Australia———Hannele29

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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Hannele is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Ханнеле

39 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)

194019601980Hannele Segerstam, b. 1943Arja Tiainen, b. 1947Hannele Huovi, b. 1949Hannele Pokka, b. 1952Vicky Rosti, b. 1958Laura Ruohonen, b. 1960Merja Ylä-Anttila, b. 1960Kaija Kärkinen, b. 1962Sirpa Paatero, b. 1964Mari-Leena Talvitie, b. 1980

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)

Formal尊敬的Hannele女士：Dear Ms Hannele, (English)
Informal你好，Hannele！Hi Hannele, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Hannele?
In the etymology graph, Nance, Jannah and Hendel are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Hannele?
A machine transcription gives /hanɫ/ (IPA) for Chinese.
What does the name Hannele mean?
Recorded meaning: Hannele är ursprungligen en smekform till → Hanna och → Johanna.
In which country does Hannele have the most bearers?
Hannele is most frequently recorded in Finland, where it is most often spelled hannele.
How common is Hannele compared with other names?
In Finland, Hannele is the 170th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hannele” — the 170th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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