Hannig
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a dialect variant of the personal name Henning
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhænɪɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hannig is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 656K
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 21K
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
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a dialect variant of the personal name Henning.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hannig 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 | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Hannig | 105 |
| US United States | — | 507 | 1 in 656K | 551 | Hannig | 181 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Hannig | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 95 | 1 in 2.2M | 95 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Hannig | 18 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Hannig | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | Hannig | 13 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Hannig | 3 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #802 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Hannig | 1 |
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; the dfa-band-2 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Hannig is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname; Variante zu Hanning mit Konsonantenvariation -ng / -g. 1691 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronym zu Kurzform von Johannes; ggf. auch slaw. Kurzform Hanik. 1691 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Georg Hannigb. 1872DEGerman author
- Franz Hannigb. 1873DEGerman classical philologist and high school teacher (1873–)
- Alex Hannigb. 1897CLGerman athletics competitor (1897–1987)
- Horst Hannigb. 1921PLGerman flying ace (1921-1943)
- Petr Hannigb. 1946CZCzech musician and politician (1946–2025)
- Gary Hannigb. 1952USAmerican politician
- Rainer Hannigb. 1952DEGerman archaeologist and egyptologist
- Betsy Hannigb. 1963USAmerican politician
- Günter Hannichb. 1968DEnot in their usual nameGerman writer
- Theresa Hannigb. 1984DEGerman novelist
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 551 | #42,381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 507 | #42,720 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 507 | #40,622 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 95 | #65,801 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 36 | #23,866 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Hannig mean, and where does it come from?
- from a dialect variant of the personal name Henning. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hannig?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhænɪɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hannig have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Hannig in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hannig.
- How common is the name Hannig?
- In the United States, the national register counted 507 people named Hannig in 2010, about 1 in 656 thousand residents.
- How common is Hannig compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Hannig is the 802nd most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hannigThe 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, “Hannig” — the 802nd most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.