Hanna

Meaning: Grace, favor
Origin: Hebrew

Girl's name · #512 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

Popularity over time

Hanna reached its best rank, #165, in 1998 and ranked #512 in 2025. Roughly 42,000 girls have been named Hanna since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

See where Hanna is more common.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 33 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

Hanna is especially popular in Hungary and Poland.

#1 in Hungary (2025) · #5 in Poland (2025) · #37 in Austria (2025) · #46 in Ecuador (2025) · #53 in Norway (2025) · #76 in Switzerland (2025) · #81 in Netherlands (2025) · #115 in France (2025) · #122 in Sweden (2025) · #136 in Mexico (2024) · #148 in Slovenia (2025) · #237 in Belgium (2025) and 5 more.

Famous Hannas

Hanna Schygulla — German actress and chanson singer (born 1943)
Hanna Suchocka — Polish political figure, Prime Minister of Poland
Hanna Reitsch — German aviator (1912–1979)
Hanna Öberg — Swedish biathlete
Hanna Pakarinen — Finnish pop and rock singer

In stories & tradition

Hanna^nl — Jack, Jacky and the Juniors (comics)
Hanna schmitz^he — The Reader (novel)
Hanna Novak — Verbotene Liebe (TV series)

What Hannas become

Among 2,449 notable people named Hanna:

Medical professionals appear 1.85× more often than among typical names — e.g. Hanna Chrzanowska, Polish nurse, blessed of the Catholic Church (1902–1973).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Hannah (#56) and Hana (#658), Hanna would rank around #40 with about 5,000 births last year — the newborns split about 79/12/9 across Hannah, Hanna, and Hana.

Similar names: Hana · Annika · Aniyah · Danna · Ariah · Chana

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