Hāns
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Hāns is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From German Hans, a medieval short form of Johannes (“John”).
- SESweden1 in 91(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 180
- 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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 423 (measured from records)
- 1 in 91 (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hans in DE Germany, SE Sweden, DK Denmark and 3 more and Han in KP North Korea.
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”).
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #19 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 184 | — | Hans | 313 |
| SE Sweden | #44 | 111,856 | 1 in 91 | 112K | Hans | 168 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 506 | — | Han | 53 |
| IN India | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 3.7K | Hans | 93 |
| DK Denmark | #27 | 26,086 | 1 in 225 | 26K | Hans | 203 |
| CH Switzerland | #15 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 391 | 290 | Hans | 162 |
| NO Norway | #26 | 19,176 | 1 in 285 | 44K | Hans | 155 |
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); 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)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)- 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
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 455 thousand people named Hāns in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hans.
- 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 Germany 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 Germany, Hāns is the 19th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C4%81nsThe 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, “Hāns” — the 19th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.