Hanson
Hanson was given to 41 boys in 2025, #3,012 among boys’ names; 1,839 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Hanson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 9 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hanson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hanson?
#3,012 among boys’ names, 2025
Hanson fell from #2,824 in 2015 to #3,012 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 24.0 per million.
56 babies in 2018, the peak
Hanson peaked in 2018, when 56 boys were given it, #2,364 among boys’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,012 | 24.0 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,844 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,859 | 25.7 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,071 | 22.9 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,527 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,228 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,959 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,364 | 30.8 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,813 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,083 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,824 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,593 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,079 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,790 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,963 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,566 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,335 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,763 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,398 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,712 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,477 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,562 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,804 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 40 | #2,477 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,885 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,586 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,304 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,810 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,693 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,697 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,354 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,795 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,179 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,662 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,233 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,501 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,365 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,386 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,813 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,719 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,997 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,562 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,711 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,359 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,138 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,271 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,238 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,719 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,698 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,831 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,760 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,334 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,204 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,007 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,209 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,202 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,085 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,938 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,446 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,927 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,979 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,273 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,229 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,564 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,311 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,337 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,063 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,830 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,011 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,517 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,180 | 6.9 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,847 | 9.6 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,887 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,948 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,783 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,470 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,619 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,466 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,593 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,237 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,953 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,386 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,759 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,803 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,633 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,120 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,959 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,038 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,420 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,093 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,893 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,601 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,795 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,241 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,356 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,282 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,398 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,082 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,852 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,222 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,969 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,484 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,618 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,710 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,058 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,728 | 21.5 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,557 | 30.5 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,284 | 39.0 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,195 | 41.9 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,225 | 39.9 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,111 | 47.1 |
| 1883 | 5 | #956 | 47.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hanson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hanson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 112 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hanson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hanson, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 1,839 Americans ever recorded as Hanson. The median Hanson alive today is 20 years old; half are between 9 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,497 people named Hanson (37 women and girls, 1,460 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,282 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 108 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 216 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 493 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 536 |
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 Hanson born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,063 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,711 | 0.3× |
Where Hanson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hanson is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Hanson 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 2,726 babies since 1880, Hanson is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 76 babies (54%), 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 Hanson
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 Hanson and names like it
- Compare Hanson and HansenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHanson peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hanson since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Hanson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hanson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.