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Haneef

#7,859 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Hanif

Haneef has been given to 573 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #7,859 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Haneef, 2025

1 in 332,000

Haneef over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haneef: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Hanif

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haneef means

Haneef is a alternate transcription of Hanif.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Haneef → Hanif. The family’s meaning is “true believer, righteous (person)”, recorded in English with the source elements ḥanīf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hanif.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 573 boys were recorded with the name Haneef between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,410 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,738 in 2020 to #7,859 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,588 in 2015 to #7,859 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 Haneef?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,859
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haneef sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haneef. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haneefs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haneef was born before 2003 — so the typical Haneef is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
573
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (166).

Is Haneef 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
+5,108
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,879
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,271
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2005 (24)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,410
1978

Spellings of Haneef

Haneef is not the most common spelling — Hakeem is, with 40.8% against Haneef's 3.7%.

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 Haneef is used

Across 1910–2025, Haneef was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 83,193 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Haneef has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haneef around the world

Where Haneef 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
    2000–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Haneef by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,859
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,879
Best rank ever
#2,410
1978
Peak year
2005
24 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
573
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Haneef

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

HanleyHanielHansenHanzelHanadHanifHansonHannahHaniHannibalHanselHandyHananHanzoHannielHanfordHanHannanShareefHansfordLateefHansellHanzHanish

Sibling names for Haneef

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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