Hān

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hān is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 15K
  • PLPoland1 in 28K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

29,847 people, 2010

Record sources
70 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Han in US United States.

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)

From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

Cited for this meaning 9

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hān 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.

Where Hān is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States29,8471 in 11K36KHan70
PL Poland1,3721 in 28K723——
ES Spain9071 in 55K907—7
BR Brazil9071 in 233K907——
AR Argentina4231 in 108K423——
FI Finland3601 in 15K360—1
CH Switzerland2901 in 29K290—1
NO Norway1941 in 28K194—1

29,847 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Hān is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name26 spellings in the group

    Also written H̋aṅ, Há̂n, H̱āṉ, H̱an, Hẳn

  • English surname78 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Han, HaeN, Hân, Haeen, Hañ

  • Urdu surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, United States, Türkiye, India

    Also written Han, Ḫān, Ḫāṇ, Hàn, Hân

  • Croatian surname118 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Croatia, Poland

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Polish

    Also written Khan, Hahn, Han, Хан, Кан

  • Khmer surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Cambodia, Canada

    Also written Han, Háṅ, Hāṅ, Hấn, Hận

  • Korean given name122 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, Germany, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Korean, German, English

    Also written 한, Hans, Han, Han'S, ฮานส์

  • Spanish surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Chile, China

    Also written Han, Hañ, Hân, Hán, Hån

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Hān 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 唅

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hān under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hān mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English han, contraction of haven. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 7 other sources.
Is Hān a male or female name?
Hān 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 Hān have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Hān, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled han.
Where is Hān most common?
Hān is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hān?
In the United States, the national register counted 29,847 people named Hān in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand 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, “Hān”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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