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Hana vs Haneen

American parents have registered 13,018 Hanas since 1880, against 1,286 Haneens. Hana is still ahead, with 436 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hana against Haneen, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hana Haneen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Hana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Hana had 185 and Haneen had 35.

Side by side

  Hana Haneen
Total US births 13,0181,286
Most in one year 43649
Babies in 2025 43637
Estimated living today 13,0001,300
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 657th girls3,247th girls
Rank in 2025 657th3,903rd
First recorded 19121984
Girls / boys 13,007 / 111,286 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Hana Haneen
France 6,7705
England and Wales 5,151396
Scotland 2614
Ireland 19710

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hana and Haneen.