Hanna

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Hanna: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #22 in 2004, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
182times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#22highest recorded position
37groupings it qualifies for
44names it appears alongside

What stands out in Hanna's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 39 years running. Names by top-100 run
Moved 138 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move
Appears alongside 44 other names across 5 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#400
1997	#383
1998	#383
1999	#338
2000	#334
2001	#345
2002	#392
2003	#427
2004	#367
2005	#405
2006	#444
2007	#321
2008	#268
2009	#260
2010	#241
2011	#210
2012	#183
2013	#179
2014	#161
2015	#156
2016	#141
2017	#143
2018	#158
2019	#142
2020	#176
2021	#214
2022	#220
2023	#262
2024	#287

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 girls in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2025: #53 among girls in Norway, #273 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #164 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #22 among girls in Norway, in 2004 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #53 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Hanna appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 7,836 births with the name.

Hanna across 4 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.

Hanna'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	#164 (1945)	#22 (2004)	#53 (2025)	81 of 81	7,836 (1945–2025)	237 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#245 (1964)	#86 (2013)	#273 (2025)	50 of 62	1,063 (1964–2025)	76 (2015)
England and Wales · Girls	#400 (1996)	#141 (2016)	#287 (2024)	29 of 29	5,735 (1996–2024)	400 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#259 (1999)	#124 (2013)	#302 (2023)	21 of 25	193 (1999–2023)	18 (2013)

Hanna 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 Hanna in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	148	5 of 10	30
1950s	209	10 of 10	21
1960s	145	10 of 10	15
1970s	261	10 of 10	26
1980s	664	10 of 10	66
1990s	1,787	10 of 10	179
2000sbusiest	2,156	10 of 10	216
2010s	1,678	10 of 10	168
2020s	788	6 of 10	131

Across Norway · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 216 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1989 and 1990, when recorded births rose by 42, from 77 to 119.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Hanna 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 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #22 in Norway in 2005.

Hanna'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	#287	156	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#262	171	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#220	217	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#214	231	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#176	283	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#142	351	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#158	336	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#143	375	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#141	400	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#156	347	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#161	347	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#179	294	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#183	281	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#210	239	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#241	206	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#260	184	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#268	180	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#321	140	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#444	89	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#405	93	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#367	104	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#427	82	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#392	85	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#345	100	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#334	101	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#338	95	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#383	84	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#383	83	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#400	81	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#162	12	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#157	13	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#238	7	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#174	12	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#129	17	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#269	6	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#156	13	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#124	18	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#203	9	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#189	10	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#160	13	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#224	8	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#185	11	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#203	9	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#282	4	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#259	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#53	125	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#54	118	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#45	128	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#43	135	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#41	136	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#37	146	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#33	164	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#37	152	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#39	153	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#36	161	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#34	155	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#37	157	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#33	162	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#30	186	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#26	198	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#31	190	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#27	208	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#35	185	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#30	200	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#26	223	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#22	218	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#22	229	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#26	221	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#24	231	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#24	237	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#34	204	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#28	231	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#28	234	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#26	231	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#31	205	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#41	180	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#44	164	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#52	158	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#65	139	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#64	126	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#71	119	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#99	77	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#92	81	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#85	89	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#113	61	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#90	77	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#113	60	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#122	52	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#117	57	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#110	60	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#128	50	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#140	42	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#158	36	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#162	35	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#192	27	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#203	24	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#214	23	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#267	16	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#231	20	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#252	18	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#221	20	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#292	13	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#370	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#322	10	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#249	15	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#230	17	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#240	16	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#206	20	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#314	9	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#176	23	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#248	13	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#270	12	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#226	15	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#240	13	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#212	17	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#175	23	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#176	22	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#175	24	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#139	35	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#178	23	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#173	25	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#172	23	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#157	27	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#130	39	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#156	31	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#164	28	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	15	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#197	22	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	13	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#174	28	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#149	33	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#145	34	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#99	57	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#96	62	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	64	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#105	56	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#86	76	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#88	75	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#86	75	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#97	66	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#111	57	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#127	50	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#122	55	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#185	31	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#222	22	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#398	8	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	8	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	7	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#335	8	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#378	6	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	7	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#496	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#329	8	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#409	5	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	4	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#468	4	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	7	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#508	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	4	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#270	8	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#288	6	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#288	6	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#167	22	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#245	8	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#244	15	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #22, first reached in 2004.

It held a top-100 place in 40 years, 39 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 400 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 79 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.

Haniyyah · #3318, 10y
Hank · #730, 13y
Hannah · #2, 62y
Hannah-Rose · #742, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Laila · #23, 81y
Kirsten · #20, 80y
Lena · #20, 81y
Rita · #25, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Arild · #22, 75y
Colin · #22, 77y
Frank · #22, 81y
Gro · #22, 62y

Comparisons involving Hanna

Existing comparison pages where Hanna and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Hanna in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Anna vs Hanna
Anna and Hanna were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #23 and #53.
Anna · Hanna · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Anne vs Hanna
Anne and Hanna were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #159 and #53.
Anne · Hanna · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Astrid vs Hanna
Astrid and Hanna were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #9 and #53.
Astrid · Hanna · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Hanna and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Helene vs Hanna
In Norway · Girls, Hanna moved into the top 50 at #27 in 2009 as Helene fell out of it to #53, having been #31 the year before.
Helene · Hanna · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2009 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Hanna measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Hanna at its highest position.

Elin vs Hanna
Elin and Hanna were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #263 and #53.
Elin · Hanna · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Elisabeth vs Hanna
Elisabeth and Hanna were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #171 and #53.
Elisabeth · Hanna · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Ellen vs Hanna
Ellen and Hanna were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #208 and #53.
Ellen · Hanna · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Hanna was ranked #22 in Norway · Girls in 2004. 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.

Hanna 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 Hanna without appearing here.

Hanna moved ahead of

Marilyn Compare
In 2014 they stood at #523 and #523 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #86 and #896.
Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #334 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #345 and #871.
Kylie Compare
In 2006 they stood at #576 and #511 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #222 and #705.
Wendy Compare
In 2006 they stood at #576 and #511 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #222 and #705.

Moved ahead of Hanna

Cara Compare
In 1968 they stood at #270 and #357 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1969 that had become #443 and #303.
Maya Compare
In 1998 they stood at #319 and #425 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1999 that had become #528 and #392.
Matilda Compare
In 2014 they stood at #156 and #171 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #269 and #136.
Violet Compare
In 2004 they stood at #367 and #607 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #405 and #273.

Moved the opposite way to Hanna

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanna went from #164 to #53 while Anita went from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanna went from #164 to #53 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanna went from #164 to #53 while Åse went from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanna went from #164 to #53 while Aud went from #13 to #427.

Moved the same way as Hanna

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanna went from #164 to #53 and Ada from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanna went from #164 to #53 and Alma from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanna went from #164 to #53 and Elise from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hanna went from #164 to #53 and Ella from #137 to #4.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #22 in Norway in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hanna

Hanna at a glance

What stands out in Hanna's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hanna across 4 official records

Hanna by decade in Norway · Girls

Hanna appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Hanna

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Hanna

Hanna and the names beside it

Hanna moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hanna

Moved the opposite way to Hanna

Moved the same way as Hanna

Hanna at a glance

What stands out in Hanna's record

Hanna across 4 official records

Hanna by decade in Norway · Girls

Hanna appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Hanna

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Hanna

Hanna and the names beside it

Hanna moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hanna

Moved the opposite way to Hanna

Moved the same way as Hanna