Hania
Hania was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,222 among girls’ names; 975 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hania mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Hania is “a diminutive of the female given name Hanna”
Clipping of Hanna + -ia.
/ˈxa.ɲa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hania?
#2,222 among girls’ names, 2025
Hania rose from #4,097 in 2015 to #2,222 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 51.6 per million.
84 babies in 2024, the peak
Hania peaked in 2024, when 84 girls were given it, #2,240 among girls’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,222 | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,240 | 51.8 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,025 | 34.3 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,289 | 29.9 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,937 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,865 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,835 | 35.2 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,877 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,095 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,567 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,097 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,069 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,162 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,532 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,271 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,304 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,604 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,062 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,502 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,142 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,515 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,817 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,335 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,815 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,389 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,037 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,959 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,444 | 10.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,286 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,967 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hania, and how old are they?
An estimated 968 Americans named Hania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 997 people named Hania (989 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 600 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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.
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 Hania born?
The states with the most babies named Hania are Texas, New York and California, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,427 | 1.0× |
| New York | 10 | #1,358 | 1.8× |
| California | 9 | #2,165 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,303 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,273 | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,286 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,475 | 0.1× |
Where Hania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hania is most over-represented in New York: since 1994 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 Hania 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, Hania is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 5,198 babies (1.6%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Hania
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 Hania and names like it
- Compare Hania and HannahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHania peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hania since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Hania: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hania.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hania alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.