Hanan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Hanan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Hanan: Recorded since 1967, it reached #339 in 1978, and it stood at #504 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
91times a registrar ranked it
59years from first to last
#339highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1296
1997	#1958
1998	#1697
1999	#1317
2000	#876
2001	#1107
2002	#822
2003	#799
2004	#963
2005	#851
2006	#890
2007	#919
2008	#937
2009	#1209
2010	#930
2011	#1225
2012	#1483
2013	#1707
2014	#1234
2015	#1601
2016	#1278
2017	#1995
2018	#1586
2019	#1562
2020	#1618
2021	#1962
2022	#1501
2023	#1255
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 44 of the 59 years from 1967 to 2025.

In 2016: #516 among girls in Norway, #1278 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1967–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #552 among girls in Norway in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1967–2025
Highest recorded position: #339 among girls in Norway, in 1978 (recorded 1967–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #504 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Hanan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 44 years beginning in 1967, and has registered 308 births with the name.

Hanan across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Hanan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#552 (1967)	#339 (1978)	#504 (2025)	44 of 59	308 (1967–2025)	12 (1978)
England and Wales · Girls	#1296 (1996)	#799 (2003)	#2411 (2024)	29 of 29	649 (1996–2024)	37 (2010)
England and Wales · Boys	#2501 (2000)	#2254 (2002)	#2671 (2024)	18 of 25	78 (2000–2024)	8 (2019)

Hanan by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Hanan in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970s	52	8 of 10	7
1980sbusiest	75	10 of 10	8
1990s	56	7 of 10	8
2000s	66	10 of 10	7
2010s	51	7 of 10	7
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Hanan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #339 in Norway in 1978.

Hanan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1255	26	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1618	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1586	19	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1278	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1601	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1707	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1483	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#930	37	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1209	25	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#937	34	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#919	33	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#890	33	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#851	33	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#963	26	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#799	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#822	29	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#876	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1317	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1296	14	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#504	4	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#516	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#411	9	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#484	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#470	7	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#393	10	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#442	8	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#521	6	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#435	9	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#403	10	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#410	9	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#497	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#525	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#382	9	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#616	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#534	5	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#599	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#511	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#561	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#439	8	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#450	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#383	11	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#403	10	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#478	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#452	9	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#567	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#561	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#436	9	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#558	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#434	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#394	10	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#576	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#453	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#417	9	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#339	12	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#548	5	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#500	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#602	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#433	8	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#577	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#591	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#552	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1967 and 2025, ranked in 54 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #339, first reached in 1978.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 37 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Hanad · #1127, 29y
Hanah · #1224, 28y
Hanaya · #3252, 11y
Haneef · #2578, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Maryan · #336, 55y
My · #329, 54y
Thanh · #329, 49y
Mahamed · #327, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Julianna · #339, 34y
Larissa · #339, 35y
Maylen · #339, 20y
Hussain · #340, 40y

Hanan was ranked #339 in Norway · Girls in 1978. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hanan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Hanan without appearing here.

Hanan moved ahead of

Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1586 and #4684.
Glenn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #4991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Pamela Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1962 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1501 and #3148.

Moved ahead of Hanan

Matheo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3996 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #2693.
Gustav Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2682 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #3990 and #2125.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1255 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #952.
Isak Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2254 and #2636 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #2741 and #1440.

Moved the opposite way to Hanan

Emily Compare
Between 1978 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanan went from #339 to #504 while Emily went from #425 to #71.
Linnea Compare
Between 1978 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanan went from #339 to #504 while Linnea went from #626 to #31.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hanan went from #1296 to #2411 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hanan went from #1296 to #2411 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.

Moved the same way as Hanan

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hanan went from #1296 to #2411 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hanan went from #1296 to #2411 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hanan went from #1296 to #2411 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hanan went from #1296 to #2411 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #339 in Norway in 1978. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hanan

Hanan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hanan across 3 official records

Hanan by decade in Norway · Girls

Hanan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Hanan

Hanan and the names beside it

Hanan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hanan

Moved the opposite way to Hanan

Moved the same way as Hanan

Hanan at a glance

Hanan across 3 official records

Hanan by decade in Norway · Girls

Hanan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Hanan

Hanan and the names beside it

Hanan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hanan

Moved the opposite way to Hanan

Moved the same way as Hanan