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Hanny

#7,257 in 2025Girls' name

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Hannah

Hanny has been given to 189 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #7,257 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Hanny, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hanny: meaning, origin, and history

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Hannah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hanny means

Hanny belongs to the name family reached through Hanny → Hannah. Its meaning is “grace, gracious, graced with child”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hanny is used in English and Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hannah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 189 girls were recorded with the name Hanny between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,600 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,626 in 2020 to #7,257 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 Hanny?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,257
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hanny 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hanny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hannys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hanny was born before 2020 — so the typical Hanny is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
189
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Choose a decade

2020s — 53.4% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Hanny 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
−2,657
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,369
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2024 (30)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,600
2024

Spellings of Hanny

Hanny is not the most common spelling — Nancy is, with 25.4% against Hanny'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 Hanny is used

Across 1910–2025, Hanny was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,309,329 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Hanny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hanny around the world

Where Hanny 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.

  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hanny by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,257
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,369
Best rank ever
#4,600
2024
Peak year
2024
30 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
189
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Hanny

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

HanneHanaeHaninHanniHanyaHanaaHaniHanleyHanifaHannieHanakoRennyHaniaHannanHanvikaHanaleiHanviViannyHanniaHaniyahEvannyLeannyKennyGianny

Sibling names for Hanny

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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