Han
Han is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,389 among girls’ names and #5,280 among boys’, #8,516 among all names counting both); 1,414 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Han and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 10 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Han by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Han mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Han is “a male given name”
/han/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Han?
#5,280 among boys’ names, 2025
Han fell from #4,445 in 2015 to #5,280 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 10.5 per million.
46 babies in 2017, the peak
Han peaked in 2017, when 46 babies were given it (29 boys, #3,705 among boys’ names). The 27 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,389 | 18 | #5,280 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,150 | 22 | #4,609 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,855 | 27 | #4,043 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,270 | 30 | #3,718 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,666 | 28 | #3,846 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,698 | 22 | #4,464 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,263 | 26 | #4,045 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,213 | 30 | #3,640 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,909 | 29 | #3,705 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,081 | 19 | #5,000 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,549 | 22 | #4,445 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,644 | 20 | #4,752 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,562 | 13 | #6,375 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,425 | 15 | #5,799 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,660 | 21 | #4,558 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,410 | 9 | #8,359 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,807 | 11 | #7,373 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,325 | 11 | #7,372 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,958 | 14 | #6,021 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,262 | 17 | #5,153 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,505 | 14 | #5,671 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,422 | 12 | #6,265 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,990 | 10 | #6,896 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,184 | 18 | #4,373 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,967 | 9 | #7,114 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,779 | 11 | #6,047 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,918 | 7 | #8,161 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,014 | 10 | #5,983 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,704 | 12 | #5,067 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,875 | 9 | #6,164 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,282 | 13 | #4,615 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,318 | 14 | #4,383 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,382 | 15 | #4,087 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,696 | 15 | #3,986 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,107 | 14 | #4,077 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,563 | 15 | #3,839 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,927 | 12 | #4,363 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,601 | 13 | #3,765 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,114 | 8 | #5,129 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,326 | 11 | #3,966 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,153 | 9 | #4,455 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,993 | 12 | #3,542 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,534 | 12 | #3,485 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,521 | 15 | #3,018 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,486 | 13 | #3,290 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,049 | 13 | #3,319 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,378 | 12 | #3,431 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,155 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,151 | 8 | #4,327 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,596 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,382 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,200 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,124 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Han a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,414 Americans recorded as Han, 46% are girls and 54% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Han: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Han, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,414 Americans ever recorded as Han. The median Han alive today is 21 years old; half are between 10 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 9,006 people named Han (4,520 women and girls, 4,486 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Han rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 76 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 462 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 480 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Han born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,596 | 1.4× |
Where Han is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Han is most over-represented in California: since 1969 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Han with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,480 babies since 1880, Han is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 27 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Han
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Han and names like it
- Compare Han and HayanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHan peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Han since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Han: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Han.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Han alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.