Hank

What Hank means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Hank yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #413 vs #3,256 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Hank?

US: Rising: up from #535 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #3373 in 2015, #3256 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 776 boys got the name (#413 that year). First in the US records in 1908.

How common

• About 1 in 2,201 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 45,323 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (3.45 per 1,000 boys), SD (2.34 per 1,000 boys), ND (2.09 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Hank is #413 in the US and #3256 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Hank were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Heng0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Hank

Boys

• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*
• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Barrett#171Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Weston#55Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #120 in 2015, #55 in 2025
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025

For a sister

• Vera#205“faith”^*
• Nora#20Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Sloane#141Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #327 in 2015, #141 in 2025
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Hank’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.