Hanny
Hanny was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,257 among girls’ names; 189 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hanny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hanny mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hanny is “a diminutive of the female given name Hannah”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hanny?
#7,257 among girls’ names, 2025
Hanny entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,257 in 2025.
30 babies in 2024, the peak
Hanny peaked in 2024, when 30 girls were given it, #4,600 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,257 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,600 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,756 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,817 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,394 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,626 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,421 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,452 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,022 | 5.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,743 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #18,309 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,328 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,186 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,805 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,086 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,055 | 10.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hanny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hanny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hanny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hanny, and how old are they?
An estimated 188 Americans named Hanny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 565 people named Hanny (446 women and girls, 119 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 89 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.3 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 526,730 babies since 1880, Hanny is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 5,197 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Hanny
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 Hanny and names like it
- Compare Hanny and HannahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHanny peaked in 2024.
- Arizona’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hanny since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hanny.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hanny alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.