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Hanna

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Hanna is ranked 504th among girls in 2024 (605 births). Its best rank was 165th, in 1998.

Rank in 2024
#504up 20 from 2023
Births in 2024
6050.04% of girls
Peak year
20001,912 births
Best rank
#165in 1998
Since 1880
41,418people given the name
Babies named Hanna, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

41,418 girls have been named Hanna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 1,912 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 33%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Hanna
1880s240
1890s292
1900s217
1910s335
1920s259
1930s166
1940s163
1950s175
1960s211
1970s517
1980s2,872
1990s13,077
2000s13,512
2010s6,507
2020s2,875

In 2000, its biggest year

Hanna was the 171st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2000 were Emily, Hannah, Madison, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 2000.

Names that rose and fell with Hanna

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.