Hanifah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hanifah has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Hanifah, 2024
1 in 418,000
Hanifah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hanifah?
Hanifah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 203,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hanifah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hanifah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hanifahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hanifah was born before 1997 — so the typical Hanifah is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 161
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Hanifah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1974 (9)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.1% average annual change
Spellings of Hanifah
Hanifah is not the most common spelling — Hannah is, with 81.6% against Hanifah's 0.03%.
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 Hanifah is used
Across 1910–2025, Hanifah was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,084,400 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Hanifah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hanifah around the world
Where Hanifah 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,035in 2025
- South Australia2003–2012#871in 2012
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.
Hanifah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hanifah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hanifah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.