Hanne
Hanne is a girl's name that peaked in 2002, when it was the 8,837th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 180 Hannes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hanne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 183
- Estimated living today
- 180
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 8,837th
- Rank in 2025
- 13,208th
- First recorded
- 1961
How old the living Hannes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 183 babies given the name since 1961, about 180 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 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.
Notable Hannes
- Hanne Krogh (born 1956)Norwegian singer
- Hanne Ørstavik (born 1969)Norwegian author
- Hanne Gaby Odiele (born 1988)Belgian model
- Hanne Darboven (1941–2009)German artist
- Hanne Desmet (born 1996)Belgian short track speed skater
- Hanne Haugland (born 1967)Norwegian high jumper
- Hanne Eriksen (born 1960)Danish rower
- Hanne Hogness (born 1967)Norwegian handball player
People named Hanne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2002
The most popular girls’ names the year Hanne peaked:
Hanne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Hanne | 15,550 | 14th |
| Belgium girls | Hanne | 5,357 | 23rd |
| England and Wales girls | Hanne | 16 | 3,142nd |
| Poland girls | Hanne | 4 birth registrations | 734th |
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.
Hanne: rank by region
In 2025, Hanne was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Hanne | 219 | 25 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hanne appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (98th) and Province of Antwerp (326th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Hanne by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 14 | 438th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hanne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Hanne | 1,757 | 2,042 |
| the Netherlands girls | Hanne | 1,108 | 1,877 |
| the Netherlands boys | Hanne | 68 | 146 |
| Finland boys | Hanne | 7 | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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.
Related names
Hanne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.