Hannah
About 466,406 American babies have been named Hannah since 1880, most of them around 2000. In 2025 it ranked 56th. About 441,000 Hannahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hannah boys named Hannah
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 466,406
- Estimated living today
- 441,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 2nd
- Rank in 2025
- 56th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 465,685 / 721
How old the living Hannahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 466,406 babies given the name since 1880, about 441,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 107,000 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה, chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (“grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a Wren with the Royal Marines, after Hannah Snell (1723–1792) who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British military.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hannahs
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)German-American political theorist and philosopher
- Hannah Murray (born 1989)English actress
- Hannah Höch (1889–1978)German artist
- Hannah Waddingham (born 1974)British actress
- Hannah Szenes (1921–1944)Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II
- Hannah Mancini (born 1980)American singer
- Hannah John-Kamen (born 1989)British actress
- Hannah More (1745–1833)English writer and philanthropist
People named Hannah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hannah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hannah is most concentrated in Alaska (2.1×), New Hampshire (2.0×), Vermont (1.7×), Nevada (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular girls’ names the year Hannah peaked:
Hannah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Hannah | 68,074 | 6th |
| Austria girls | Hannah | 13,219 | 9th |
| Scotland girls | Hannah | 11,299 | 10th |
| Ireland girls | Hannah | 11,093 | 13th |
| New Zealand girls | Hannah | 9,447 | 3rd |
| France girls | Hannah | 5,805 | 202nd |
| Norway girls | Hannah | 4,065 | 25th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Hannah | 3,778 | 6th |
| Belgium girls | Hannah | 2,867 | 75th |
| Switzerland girls | Hannah | 1,844 | 74th |
| Denmark girls | Hannah | 1,811 | 30th |
| Poland girls | Hannah | 778 birth registrations | 143rd |
| Italy girls | Hannah | 628 | — |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Hannah: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Hannah | 1,673 | 0.134% | 56th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Hannah | 163 | 0.037% | 168th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Hannah | 4 | 0.006% | 104th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Hannah | 4 | 0.108% | 4th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Hannah is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.24% of children were given it – 90 of them.
Hannah: rank by region
In 2025, Hannah was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Hannah | 128 | 46 |
| Wallonia | Hannah | 264 | 10 |
| Brussels | Hannah | 159 | 7 |
In 2008, Hannah was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Hannah | 9 | 34 |
In 2025, Hannah was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Hannah | 190 | 3 |
| Łódzkie | Hannah | 188 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Hannah | 194 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Hannah | 158 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hannah appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (65th), Province of Limburg (117th), Province of West Flanders (138th), Province of Antwerp (149th), Province of East Flanders (154th) and Brussels-Capital Region (159th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Hannah by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 841 | 8th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hannah among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Hannah | 5,190 | 8,271 |
| Finland girls | Hannah | 379 | 468 |
| the Netherlands boys | Hannah | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Hannah lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,115 women called Hannah were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Hannah | 55 | 0.099 | 944 |
| Balears, Illes | Hannah | 59 | 0.094 | 818 |
| Palmas, Las | Hannah | 48 | 0.081 | 1,174 |
| Barcelona | Hannah | 246 | 0.081 | 842 |
| Tarragona | Hannah | 25 | 0.057 | 1,193 |
| Málaga | Hannah | 47 | 0.051 | 1,150 |
Listed in 37 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 15 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Hannah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.