Hannula
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hannula is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from a farmstead named for its owner, from the personal name Hannu, a derivative of German Johannes (see John) + the local suffix -la.
- FIFinland1 in 832(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 113K
- USUnited States1 in 682K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hannula itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 832 (inferred from the name graph)
6,700 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ханнула in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from a farmstead named for its owner, from the personal name Hannu, a derivative of German Johannes (see John) + the local suffix -la. In the Middle Ages, Johannes was one of the most popular personal names in Finland.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hannula 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 6,700 | 1 in 832 | 6.7K | Hannula | 2 |
| US United States | 488 | 1 in 682K | 488 | Hannula | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 90 | 1 in 113K | 90 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 35M | — | Ханнула | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 12 | — | 1 |
6,700 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Hannula 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 Finnish, a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
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)
- Edvard Hannulab. 1859FIFinnish priest and politician
- Mandi Hannulab. 1880FIFinnish politician
- Väinö Hannulab. 1893FIFinnish politician (1893-1953)
- Ruth Hannulab. 1894FIFinnish poet (1894-1920)
- Joose Olavi Hannulab. 1900FIFinnish colonel and historian (1900-1944)
- Simo Hannulab. 1932FIFinnish painter (1932-2016)
- Seppo Hannulab. 1946FIFinnish ski jumper
- Mika Hannulab. 1967FIFinnish professor
- Mika Hannulab. 1979SESwedish ice hockey player
- Janne Hannulab. 1982FIFinnish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 6.7K | #270 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 488 | #44,109 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 487 | #41,995 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 470 | #48,549 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 90 | #7,853 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,351 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,071 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hannula mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a farmstead named for its owner, from the personal name Hannu, a derivative of German Johannes (see John) + the local suffix -la. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hannula have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Hannula, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hannula.
- Where is Hannula most common?
- Hannula is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 832 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hannula?
- In Finland, the national register counted 6,700 people named Hannula, about 1 in 832 residents.
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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, “Hannula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.