Hannah

What Hannah means

Means “grace, gracious, graced with child”

From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Hannah” (revision 92481804), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Hannah?

US: Falling: down from #28 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #55 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 23,087 girls got the name (#2 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 405 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 577 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 280 baby girls in Scotland 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 WY (11.1 per 1,000 girls), RI (8.16 per 1,000 girls), DC (5.94 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Hannah is #56 in the US and #105 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Hannah were girls.

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

• Hana436 US · 341 E&W
• Hanna580 US · 122 E&W
• Henna36 US · 3 E&W
• Hanaa16 US · 12 E&W
• Hanny15 US
• Hanah11 US · 3 E&W
• Hanni9 US
• Haina7 US

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

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Hanna

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Hannah

Girls

• Jordan#584Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #262 in 2015, #584 in 2025
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025
• Jenna#679Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 6,436 babies; 418 in 2025
• Abby#731Diminutive of Abigail, meaning “my Father's joy”^*
• Rebekah#884“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Elisabeth#925“my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Seth#581“chosen one, appointed, placed”^*
• Jacob#43“May He Heel”^*
• Ruben#480Editor’s note Down from #374 in 2015 to #480 in 2025 in the US
• Samuel#18“God has set or God has placed”^*
• Jared#396Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #396 vs #1,705 in 2025
• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Hannah’s. Rank is US 2025.