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Hanna

#511 in the US in 2025

Where Hanna stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#511girls’ names · US 2025

Hanna was the 511th most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 580 births.

peak 2000 · 1,912188019532025

Its moment was 2000, when 1,912 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#511US rank, 2025 (girls)
580US births in 2025
#165its best US rank, in 1998
2000peak year — 1,912 births
42,005US births since 1880
219NZ births since 1981
1,531E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Hanna's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Hanna was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Hanna in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.054107
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Hanna in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Hanna in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Hanna has been registered 219 times since 1981, peaking in 1988 with 28 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.069139
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Hanna in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Hanna in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Hanna was registered 1,531 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2019 with 351 births. It ranked #352 for girls in 2025 on 122 births. Across those years it has been falling.

20200.063125
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Hanna in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1880#31725
1890#44633
1900#78022
1910#78130
1920#1,28236
1930#1,93418
1940#1,90018
1950#2,05322
1960#2,64921
1970#2,93823
1980#1,189112
1990#344778
2000#1711,912
2010#516579
2020#528571

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Hanna most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
California4,526
Texas3,132
New York2,382
Florida1,885
Ohio1,710
Illinois1,644
Pennsylvania1,449
Michigan1,423
Indiana1,104
Georgia1,083

Questions about Hanna

How popular is the name Hanna?

Hanna ranked #511 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 580 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Hanna most popular?

Hanna peaked in 2000, when 1,912 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Hanna rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Hanna has been steady between 2016 and 2025.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 2000, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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