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Hanae

#15,733 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Hanae has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #15,733 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Hanae, 2025

1 in 663,000

Hanae over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hanae: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Hanae means

Hanae is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include flower, picture, favour, benefit.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hanae is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /hä.nä.e̞/ for Hanae.

Origin, language, and formation

Hanae is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 girls were recorded with the name Hanae between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,075 in 1931.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #15,178 in 2015 to #15,733 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hanae?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,733
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hanae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hanae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hanaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hanae was born before 2006 — so the typical Hanae is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
108
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Choose a decade

2000s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Hanae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−555
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2009 (8)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,075
1931

Spellings of Hanae

Hanae is not the most common spelling — Hannah is, with 23.6% against Hanae's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hanae is used

Across 1910–2025, Hanae was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 23,094 across all states with data.

44 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hanae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hanae around the world

Where Hanae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1977–2025
    #348
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hanae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,733
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,075
1931
Peak year
2009
8 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
135
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Hanae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hanae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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