Hanson
#3,012 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hanson has been given to 1,839 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #3,012 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Hanson, 2025
1 in 80,900
Hanson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Hanson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 80,900
- 41 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 41,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,012
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 56,047 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hanson sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hanson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hansons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hanson was born before 2001 — so the typical Hanson is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 22.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,482
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (415).
Is Hanson 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
- −168
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +216
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −188
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.98×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 73.2%
- Peak was 2018 (56)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.5% average annual change
Spellings of Hanson
Hanson is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 44.8% against Hanson's 0.08%.
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 Hanson is used
Across 1910–2025, Hanson was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 158,431 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Arizona1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
- 6Washington1 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. Hanson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hanson around the world
Where Hanson 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 & Wales2001–2025#3,684in 2025
- France2003–2003#4,195in 2003
- Canada1994–2024#3,231in 2024
- South Australia1989–2012#771in 2012
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.
Hanson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hanson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hanson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.