Hannes
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: a diminutive of the male given name Johannes
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hanəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hannes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Austria it is the 82nd most common given name.
- ATAustria≈1 in 528(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 1.4K
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.2K
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
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 528 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from an aphetic form of the personal name Johannes (see John).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hannes is read(measured from records)
Hannes is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German74%
a diminutive of the male given name Johannes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Finnish21%
a male given name from Late Latin Iōhannēs [in turn from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), in turn from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, “God is gracious”)], variant of Johannes; variant form Hannu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hannes in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hannes 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 | #447 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 18 | Hannes | 208 |
| AT Austria | #82 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 528 | 4.8K | Hannes | 151 |
| SE Sweden | #359 | 7,442 | 1 in 1.4K | 7.4K | Hannes | 71 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Hannes | 63 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,574 | 1 in 1.6K | 7.6K | Hannes | 28 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 7 | Hannes | 37 |
| IS Iceland | #199 | 386 | 1 in 909 | 414 | Hannes | 50 |
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-munich-standesamt register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Hannes 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.
from an aphetic form of the personal name Johannes (see John).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Hannes är en äldre form av → Hans och ursprungligen en smekform till → Johannes. Det var ett populärt namn runt millennieskiftet. En känd namnbärare är regissören Hannes Holm (f. 1962). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 27 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Short form of Johannes , the Latin form of JOHN . It is found in Dutch, and is a common name in South Africa, where the Latin forms of names (such as Jacobus , Petrus , and Stephanus ) are still very much in current use among Afrikaners.
as a word
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)
- Hannes Meyerb. 1889CHSwiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus (1889-1954)
- Hannes Alfvénb. 1908SESwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Hannes Messemerb. 1924DEactor (1924-1991)
- Hannes Nikelb. 1931DEGerman film editor (1931-2001)
- Hannes Löhrb. 1942DEGerman footballer and manager (1942-2016)
- Hannes Waderb. 1942DEGerman singer-songwriter
- Hannes Swobodab. 1946ATAustrian politician
- Hannes Jaenickeb. 1960DEGerman actor
- Hannes Holmb. 1962SESwedish film director
- Hannes Halldorssonb. 1984ISIcelandic filmmaker and former professional footballer
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 58 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 7.6K | #238 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7.4K | #481 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 5.6K | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 4.8K | #169 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 3.6K | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 414 | #95 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 386 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 38 | #169 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Standesamt — Vornamenstatistik PDF (official publication) | 2024 | 18 | #106 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #28,536 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 13 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 8 | #1 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Hannes come from?
- from an aphetic form of the personal name Johannes (see John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hannes?
- A machine transcription gives /hanəs/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Hannes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Hannes in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hannes.
- Is Hannes a male or female name?
- Hannes is a male 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 does the name Hannes mean?
- In German, a diminutive of the male given name Johannes
- What are other forms of the name Hannes?
- In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Jan and Johan.
- How common is the name Hannes?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 7,442 people named Hannes, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Hannes compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hannes is the 447th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hannes?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hannesThe 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, “Hannes” — the 447th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.