Hannelore
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, blend of Hanne and Lore
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hanəloːʁə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hannelore is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 943(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.3K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 7.9K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 943 (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, blend of Hanne and Lore
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hannelore, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hannelore 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #220 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 943 | 1 | Hannelore | 170 |
| US United States | — | 2,749 | 1 in 121K | 2.7K | Hannelore | 189 |
| AT Austria | #439 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 111 | Hannelore | 59 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 10 | Hannelore | 72 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Hannelore | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 808 | 1 in 21K | 798 | Hannelore | 36 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 392 | 1 in 27K | 392 | — | — |
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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Hannelore is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Blend of HANNE and ELEA- NORE.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, weibl. Vom., Doppelform aus
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Anne Buydensb. 1919USnot in their usual nameAmerican film producer (1919–2021)
- Loki Schmidtb. 1919DEnot in their usual nameGerman environmentalist (1919–2010)
- Hannelore Schrothb. 1922DEGerman actress (1922–1987)
- Hannelore Kohlb. 1933DEWife of German chancellor Helmut Kohl (1933–2001)
- Hannelore Hogerb. 1939DEGerman actress
- Hannelore Elsnerb. 1942DEGerman actress (1942–2019)
- Hannelore Kochb. 1951DEGerman actress
- Hanni Wenzelb. 1956LInot in their usual nameLiechtensteiner alpine skier
- Hannelore Ankeb. 1957DEEast German swimmer
- Hannelore Kraftb. 1961DEGerman politician
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)
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 50 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 does the name Hannelore mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, blend of Hanne and Lore Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hannelore a male or female name?
- Hannelore 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 Hannelore?
- In the etymology graph, Johanna, Hanne and Eleonore are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hannelore?
- A machine transcription gives /hanəloːʁə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Hannelore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Hannelore in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hannelore.
- How common is the name Hannelore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,749 people named Hannelore in 2020, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
- How common is Hannelore compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hannelore is the 220th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hannelore?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hanneloreThe 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, “Hannelore” — the 220th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.