Hanno
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from the vocabulary word hannos ‘perch’, used as a nickname for a gullible person
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hanoː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hanno is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 3.6K
- ATAustria≈1 in 26K
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
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the vocabulary word hannos ‘perch’, used as a nickname for a gullible person.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hanno is read(measured from records)
Hanno is one spelling over 2 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.
- German69%
from the vocabulary word hannos ‘perch’, used as a nickname for a gullible person.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of the personal name Hans.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
a diminutive of the male given names Johann or Johannes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English8.4%
Carthaginian admiral
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Hanno 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 | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Hanno | 153 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Hanno | 28 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 113 | Hanno | 49 |
| EE Estonia | #906 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Hanno | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 238 | 1 in 73K | 238 | Hanno | 34 |
| FI Finland | — | 78 | 1 in 71K | 229 | — | 5 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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). 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)
Hanno is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, a male given name, character in the play Poenulus of Plautus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hanno the Elderb. 250TNCarthaginian general
- Hanno the Greatb. 290TNCarthaginian aristocrat
- Hannob. 499TN5th century BC Carthaginian explorer
- Hanno Pöschlb. 1949ATAustrian actor
- Hanno Huthb. 1953DEGerman film producer
- Hanno Lentzb. 1965DEGerman cinematographer
- Hanno Möttöläb. 1976FIFinnish basketball player (born 1976)
- Hanno Pevkurb. 1977EEEstonian politician (born 1977)
- Hanno Kofflerb. 1980DEGerman actor
- Hanno Balitschb. 1981DEGerman 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 39 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 69 | #25,158 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,419 |
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
- Wikipedia surname 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 Hanno mean, and where does it come from?
- from the vocabulary word hannos ‘perch’, used as a nickname for a gullible person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hanno?
- A machine transcription gives /hanoː/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Hanno a male or female name?
- Hanno 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 are other forms of the name Hanno?
- In the etymology graph, Johann and Hanan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hanno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Hanno in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hanno.
- How common is the name Hanno?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 238 people named Hanno, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
- How common is Hanno compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Hanno is the 906th most common given name of 9,600 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hanno?
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/hannoThe 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, “Hanno” — the 906th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.