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Hannes

Boys' name

Possibly God is gracious, through Johannes

Hannes has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2011, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Hannes, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hannes: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly God is gracious, through Johannes

Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Late Latin and German

What Hannes means

Hannes belongs to the name family reached through Hannes → Johannes. Its meaning is “God is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hannes is used in Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, German, Hunsrik, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Late Latin and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johannes, Iōannēs and Hans.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Hannes is pronounced /ˈhɑnːes/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 37 boys were recorded with the name Hannes between 2003 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2011; its best national rank was #9,995 in 2011.

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 Hannes?

Hannes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hannes 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hannes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hanness were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hannes was born before 2011 — so the typical Hannes is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
73.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
37
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 73.0% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Hannes 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 2011 (7)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,995
2011

Spellings of Hannes

Hannes is not the most common spelling — Tanner is, with 65.9% against Hannes's 0.02%.

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.

Hannes around the world

Where Hannes 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
    1996–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1957–1984
    #455
    in 1984

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.

Hannes by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,995
2011
Peak year
2011
7 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
37
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hannes

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

HanesHanzalaHansellHannonHannielHanzoHancelHaneulHananYunesHaneyHanishHanzelHananiahHannanDennesHanielHanzellHansselHaneefHandsomeHanyHansiHanz

Sibling names for Hannes

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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