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Hanah

#9,075 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Hanah has been given to 2,057 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #9,075 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Hanah, 2025

1 in 301,000

Hanah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hanah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hanah means

Hanah is a given name.

The naming story behind Hanah

Wikidata records Hanah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q123009587, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,057 girls were recorded with the name Hanah between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,561 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,589 in 2020 to #9,075 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,187 in 2015 to #9,075 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.

How common is Hanah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,075
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hanah 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hanah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hanahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hanah was born before 2001 — so the typical Hanah is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,057
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (838).

Is Hanah 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
−447
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−486
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,888
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.3%
Peak was 2001 (118)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,561
1999

Spellings of Hanah

Hanah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 47.5% against Hanah's 0.09%.

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 Hanah is used

Across 1910–2025, Hanah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 177,327 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Iowa1 in —

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. Hanah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hanah around the world

Where Hanah 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2024
    #4,959
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1984–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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.

Notable people named Hanah

People whose public names include Hanah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hanah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,075
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 486
Best rank ever
#1,561
1999
Peak year
2001
118 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,057
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Hanah

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

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Names with a curve like Hanah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hanah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hanah

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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