Hanan
Hanan is given to both girls and boys: 58 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,911 among girls’ names and #8,483 among boys’, #4,596 among all names counting both); 2,229 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Hanan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hanan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hanan?
#2,911 among girls’ names, 2025
Hanan fell from #2,900 in 2015 to #2,911 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 33.6 to 36.1 per million.
72 babies in 2016, the peak
Hanan peaked in 2016, when 72 babies were given it (67 girls, #2,626 among girls’ names). The 67 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 93% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,911 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,424 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,397 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,185 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,267 | 29.9 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,940 | 34.0 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,763 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,595 | 39.4 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,067 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,626 | 37.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,900 | 33.6 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,941 | 32.5 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,986 | 31.9 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,026 | 31.8 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,150 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,018 | 31.5 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,317 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,235 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,105 | 29.1 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,920 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,469 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,581 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,250 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,614 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,971 | 26.7 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,469 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,819 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,514 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,942 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,767 | 25.1 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,694 | 25.6 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,314 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,444 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,693 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,851 | 21.9 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,239 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,595 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,062 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,723 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,480 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,927 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,312 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,364 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,201 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,654 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,064 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,916 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,328 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,740 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,855 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,425 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,444 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,720 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,723 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,690 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,544 | 5.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,060 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hanan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,229 Americans recorded as Hanan, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hanan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hanan, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,229 Americans ever recorded as Hanan. The median Hanan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 5,431 people named Hanan (5,077 women and girls, 354 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 466 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 826 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 782 |
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 Hanan born?
The states with the most babies named Hanan are Minnesota, California and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 8 | #622 | 4.7× |
| California | 5 | #3,269 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,489 | 0.1× |
Where Hanan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hanan is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1966 it was given 4.7 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 Hanan 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,847 babies since 1880, Hanan is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 115 babies (58%), 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 Hanan
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 Hanan and names like it
- Compare Hanan and HaneenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHanan peaked in 2016.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hanan since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Hanan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hanan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.