Hāns

surname · Latin script

Hāns is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From German Hans, a medieval short form of Johannes (“John”).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 91(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 173
  • DKDenmark1 in 225

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 Hāns 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈590,000 named Han, est.

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
423 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 91 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HānsLatin(measured from records)
ฮานิสThai(measured from records)
후한Hangul(measured from records)
ՀանսArmenian(measured from records)
ΧανςGreek(measured from records)
ჰანსGeorgian(measured from records)
ҲансCyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hans in DE Germany, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands and 3 more and Han in CN China.

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 German Hans, a medieval short form of Johannes (“John”).

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hāns 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 Hāns is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈590,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Han76
DE Germany#19≈460,000 est.≈1 in 173—Hans313
SE Sweden#44111,8561 in 91112KHans168
DK Denmark#2726,0861 in 22526KHans203
NO Norway#2619,1761 in 28544KHans155
CH Switzerland#15≈17,000 est.≈1 in 505290Hans162
NL Netherlands#89as Hân1 in 1.9M20KHans191

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Hāns is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Latvian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Lithuania

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Hans

  • Croatian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Hans, Ханс, Hanš, Hãñš, Hănš

1 further group 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)

Hāns 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 itc-pro, goose

    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)

1850190019502000Reynaldo Hahn, b. 1874Otto Hahn, b. 1879Hans Hahn, b. 1879Kurt Hahn, b. 1886Jess Hahn, b. 1921Don Hahn, b. 1955Johannes Hahn, b. 1957Kathryn Hahn, b. 1973Joe Hahn, b. 1977Hilary Hahn, b. 1979
  • Reynaldo Hahnb. 1874FRnot in their usual nameVenezuelan-French composer (1874-1947)
  • Otto Hahnb. 1879DEnot in their usual nameGerman chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
  • Hans Hahnb. 1879ATAustrian mathematician (1879–1934)
  • Kurt Hahnb. 1886DEnot in their usual nameGerman educator (1886-1974)
  • Jess Hahnb. 1921USnot in their usual nameactor (1921-1998)
  • Don Hahnb. 1955USnot in their usual nameartist, film maker, producer (born 1955)
  • Johannes Hahnb. 1957ATnot in their usual nameAustrian politician (born 1957)
  • Kathryn Hahnb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1973)
  • Joe Hahnb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
  • Hilary Hahnb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican classical violinist

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hāns mean, and where does it come from?
From German Hans, a medieval short form of Johannes (“John”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
In which country does Hāns have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 594 thousand people named Han in China, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hāns most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hāns is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 91 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hāns?
In Sweden, the national register counted 111,856 people named Hāns, about 1 in 91 residents.
How common is Hāns compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Hāns is the 8th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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, “Hāns” — the 8th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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