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Hande

#15,734 in 2025Girls' name

Laughter

Hande has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 2024. In 2025 it ranked #15,734 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Hande, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hande: meaning, origin, and history

Laughter

Persian

What Hande means

Hande means “laughter”, associated with xande.

Origin, language, and formation

Hande is used in Turkish. Its origins include Persian.

Hande comes through Persian خنده.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Hande between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,464 in 2024.

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 Hande?

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
#15,734
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hande 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 Hande. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Handes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hande was born before 2024 — so the typical Hande is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Hande 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
−4,270
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2024 (8)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,464
2024

Spellings of Hande

Hande is not the most common spelling — Jane is, with 21.9% against Hande'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.

Hande around the world

Where Hande 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.

  • France
    1998–1998
    #3,031
    in 1998

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hande by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,734
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,464
2024
Peak year
2024
8 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Hande

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

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Sibling names for Hande

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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