Hansell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: In some cases probably a respelhng of Hansel 1 or 3
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhænsəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hansell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 101K
- USUnited States1 in 187K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
1,778 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)In some cases probably a respelhng of Hansel 1 or 3.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hansell 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,778 | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Hansell | 250 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Hansell | 122 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Hansell | 83 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Hansell | 70 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Hansell | 10 |
| PA Panama | #612 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Hansell | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 129 | 1 in 79K | 129 | Hansell | 22 |
| FI Finland | — | 60 | 1 in 93K | 60 | — | 7 |
1,778 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Edward Halifax Hansellb. 1814English Anglican priest
- Lizzie P. Evans-Hansellb. 1836USAmerican novelist, short-story writer (1836-1922)
- Ellen Hansellb. 1869USUS tennis player (1869–1937)
- Ernest George Hansellb. 1895CACanadian politician (1895-1965)
- Haywood S. Hansellb. 1903USAmerican U.S. Air Force major general (1903-1988)
- Ron Hansellb. 1930GBFootballer (1930-2013)
- Thomas Hansellb. 1954GBBritish cricketer (1954-2017)
- Greg Hansellb. 1971USAmerican baseball player
- Steven Hansellb. 1975GBBritish basketball player
- Luis Tejadab. 1982PAnot in their usual namePanamanian footballer (1982–2024)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,795 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 129 | #5,907 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 60 | #19,344 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 33 | — |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 1 | #1,487 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Hansell mean, and where does it come from?
- In some cases probably a respelhng of Hansel 1 or 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hansell?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhænsəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hansell have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Hansell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hansell.
- How common is the name Hansell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,778 people named Hansell in 2010, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.
- How common is Hansell compared with other names?
- In Panama, Hansell is the 612th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hansell?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hansellThe 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, “Hansell” — the 612th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.