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Hanniel

#7,345 in 2025Boys' name

Grace of God

Hanniel has been given to 116 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #7,345 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Hanniel, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hanniel: meaning, origin, and history

Grace of God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hanniel means

Hanniel means “grace of God”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 116 boys were recorded with the name Hanniel between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2017; its best national rank was #6,437 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,294 in 2020 to #7,345 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,175 in 2015 to #7,345 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.

How common is Hanniel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,345
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hanniel 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hanniel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hanniels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hanniel was born before 2018 — so the typical Hanniel is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
116
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Hanniel 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+949
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,830
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 2017 (13)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,437
2017

Spellings of Hanniel

Hanniel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 98.8% against Hanniel'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 Hanniel is used

Across 1910–2025, Hanniel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Hanniel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hanniel around the world

Where Hanniel 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
    2013–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2025
    #2,670
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2022
    #2,147
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hanniel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,345
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 949
Best rank ever
#6,437
2017
Peak year
2017
13 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
116
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Hanniel

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

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Sibling names for Hanniel

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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