Hani

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Hani: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #1,299 in 2005, and it stood at #2,253 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1299highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2411
1998	#3848
2001	#2466
2002	#2868
2003	#2727
2004	#2530
2005	#2438
2007	#2627
2008	#3397
2009	#3936
2011	#2636
2012	#2717
2013	#3536
2014	#2862
2015	#4736
2016	#3214
2017	#3583
2018	#2340
2019	#3541
2020	#2449
2021	#3192
2022	#3148
2023	#3598
2024	#2253

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1299 among boys in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Hani appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 186 births with the name.

Hani across 2 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.

Hani'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
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1299 (2005)	#2921 (2024)	29 of 29	186 (1996–2024)	15 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#2411 (1997)	#2253 (2024)	#2253 (2024)	24 of 28	168 (1997–2024)	12 (2024)

Hani by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Hani in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	4 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	78	10 of 10	8
2010s	58	10 of 10	6
2020s	31	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Hani appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1299 in England and Wales in 2005.

Hani'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	#2253	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1410	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,299, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 15 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

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.

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.

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Haneen · #718, 30y
Hania · #333, 30y
Haniel · #2263, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Adeeba · #1296, 29y
Amena · #1296, 29y
Falaq · #1296, 25y
Ifra · #1295, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adeeba · #1296, 29y
Aleya · #1302, 23y
Amena · #1296, 29y
Falaq · #1296, 25y

Hani 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 Hani without appearing here.

Hani moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3536 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2340 and #5666.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #5493.
Cameron Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #4843.
Denise Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Hani

Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2862 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #2705.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2466 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2868 and #938.
Ida Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2411 and #2738 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #2165.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #1461.

Moved the opposite way to Hani

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hani went from #2020 to #2921 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hani went from #2020 to #2921 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hani went from #2020 to #2921 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hani went from #2020 to #2921 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Hani

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hani went from #2020 to #2921 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hani went from #2020 to #2921 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hani went from #2020 to #2921 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hani went from #2020 to #2921 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1299 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hani

Hani at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hani across 2 official records

Hani by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Hani appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Hani and the names beside it

Hani moved ahead of

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Hani at a glance

Hani across 2 official records

Hani by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Hani appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Hani and the names beside it

Hani moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hani

Moved the opposite way to Hani

Moved the same way as Hani