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Girl's name · #56 in the US (2025) · 90s wave
Hannah's best rank, #2, came in 1998; it has stepped well back to #56 today. Roughly 466,000 girls have been named Hannah since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Hannah is especially popular in Germany.
#7 in Germany (2025) · #12 in Austria (2025) · #21 in Ireland (2025) · #28 in Denmark (2025) · #42 in N. Ireland (2025) · #46 in Netherlands (2025) · #51 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #64 in Scotland (2025) · #67 in New Zealand (2025) · #73 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #78 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #87 in Switzerland (2025) and 10 more.
Among 2,092 notable people named Hannah:
Medical professionals appear 1.9× more often than among typical names — e.g. Hannah Valantine, Gambian cardiologist (born 1951).
Popular twin pairings with Hannah include Hailey and Emma for girls, and Noah for a boy.
Together with its spelling variants Hanna (#512) and Hana (#658), Hannah 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: Samantha · Ana · Abigail · Leah · Aniyah · Sarah
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