Hana
Hana was given to 436 girls in 2025, #658 among girls’ names; 13,018 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,800 Americans named Hana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hana mean?
Wiktionary, Czech section
Hana is “a female given name, equivalent to English Hannah”
Borrowed from Hebrew חנה.
[ˈɦana]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Czech section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hana?
#658 among girls’ names, 2025
Hana rose from #859 in 2015 to #658 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.18 to 0.27 per 1,000.
436 babies in 2025, the peak
Hana peaked in 2025, when 436 girls were given it, #658 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 396 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 436 | #658 | 0.27 |
| 2024 | 396 | #709 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 387 | #728 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 404 | #725 | 0.25 |
| 2021 | 346 | #808 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 360 | #756 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 333 | #820 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 390 | #729 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 352 | #780 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 336 | #845 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 326 | #859 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 329 | #841 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 354 | #770 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 316 | #844 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 315 | #838 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 316 | #849 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 335 | #835 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 343 | #828 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 369 | #781 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 391 | #720 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 416 | #668 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 393 | #691 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 392 | #675 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 411 | #621 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 388 | #651 | 0.22 |
| 2000 | 391 | #640 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 339 | #672 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 296 | #737 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 297 | #721 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 221 | #892 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 203 | #927 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 216 | #889 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 185 | #998 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 156 | #1,130 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 173 | #1,049 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,154 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 135 | #1,197 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 107 | #1,335 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,167 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 121 | #1,173 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 101 | #1,319 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,506 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 84 | #1,404 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,589 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,792 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,617 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,253 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,587 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,979 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,579 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,604 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,684 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,893 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,638 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,328 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,180 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,454 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,361 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,129 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,726 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,727 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,974 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,862 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,650 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,165 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hana has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 69 years of records.
Girls and boys named Hana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hana, and how old are they?
12,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,018 Americans ever recorded as Hana. The median Hana alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 15,211 people named Hana (15,095 women and girls, 116 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,607 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 279 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,730 |
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 Hana born?
The states with the most babies named Hana are California, Texas and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 80 | #418 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 52 | #608 | 0.7× |
| New York | 46 | #372 | 1.5× |
| Washington | 25 | #292 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 23 | #461 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 17 | #928 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 17 | #475 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 14 | #686 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #637 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 12 | #655 | 1.0× |
Where Hana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hana is most over-represented in Washington: since 1912 it was given 1.8 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 girls’ 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 Hana 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 526,928 babies since 1880, Hana is the third most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 436 of their 5,198 babies (8.4%), again the third 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 Hana
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 Hana and names like it
- Compare Hana and HannahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHana peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hana since 1910.
- Czech namesWiktionary’s origin for Hana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Hana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.