Hansa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: merchant guild; Norwegian beer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hansa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 315K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 18Kas Hamsa
- EGEgypt≈1 in 23Kas Hamsa
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 Hansa 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 named Hamsa, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hamsa in EG Egypt, SY Syria, AE United Arab Emirates and 1 more.
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)
merchant guild; Norwegian beer
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hansa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Hamsa | 49 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #771 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Hansa | 23 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Hansa | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Hamsa | 10 |
| US United States | — | 1,057 | 1 in 315K | 1K | Hansa | 109 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hamsa | 28 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Hamsa | 8 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Hansa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
the crest of the swan.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Latin, a Hanse; a commercial or military alliance of cities such as formerly existed in northern Europe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, Hanse (guild of merchants around the Baltic coast)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, the Hanseatic League, the Hansa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, h-prothesized form of ansa
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)
- Hansa Jivraj Mehtab. 1897INreformist, social activist, freedom-fighter and educator and writer of India
- Hansa Wadkarb. 1924INMarathi & Hindi fim actress in Indian cinema
- Hansa Jónsdóttirb. 1935ISbadminton player
- Hansa Yogendrab. 1947INIndian yoga guru, author, researcher and television personality (born 1947)
- Hansa Czypionkab. 1958DEGerman actor
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hansa mean, and where does it come from?
- merchant guild; Norwegian beer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Hansa a male or female name?
- Hansa 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.
- In which country does Hansa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Hamsa in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hansa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,057 people named Hansa in 2020, about 1 in 315 thousand residents.
- How common is Hansa compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Hansa is the 771st most common given name of 14,062 given names 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/hansaThe 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, “Hansa” — the 771st most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.