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Hannie

#9,687 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Johanna

Hannie has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #9,687 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Hannie, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hannie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Johanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hannie means

Hannie is a diminutive of Johanna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hannie → Johanna. The family’s meaning is “God is gracious”, recorded in English with the source elements Yôḥānāh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 97 girls were recorded with the name Hannie between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,637 in 1911.

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 Hannie?

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 girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,687
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Hannies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hannie was born before 2014 — so the typical Hannie is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
51
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2020s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Hannie 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
−535
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
90.9%
Peak was 2024 (11)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,637
1911

Spellings of Hannie

Hannie is not the most common spelling — Hannah is, with 17.0% against Hannie'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.

Where Hannie is used

Across 1910–2025, Hannie was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 471,198 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 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. Hannie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hannie around the world

Where Hannie 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
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Hannie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,687
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,637
1911
Peak year
2024
11 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
97
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Hannie

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

HanyaHanniHaninHanleyHanaeHanifaHanneHananiHanakoHannyHaniahHanadiHanaanHannanHananiahHanvikaHanoraElenieHanaleiHanviHanabiHanniaEvannieHaniyah

Sibling names for Hannie

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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