Hannele
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hannele är ursprungligen en smekform till → Hanna och → Johanna (Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries
/ˈhɑnːele/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Hannele is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.
- ZASouth Africa
- AUAustralia
- DEGermany
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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Hannele
- Finnish:/ˈhɑnːele/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hannele is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #170 | — | 94K | Hannele | 28 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Hannele | 63 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 4.1K | Hannele | 23 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Hannele | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Hannele | 29 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hannele Pokkab. 1952FIFinnish politician and Governor of Lapland
- Vicky Rostib. 1958FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
- Kaija Kärkinenb. 1962FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer, lyricist and actress
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hannele mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hannele är ursprungligen en smekform till → Hanna och → Johanna.
- 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?
- In Finnish /ˈhɑnːele/ (Wiktionary).
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hanneleThe 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, “Hannele” — ranked 11th in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.