Hans

maleStatistical record

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

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

Hans: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #10 in 1949, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
113times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#10highest recorded position
28groupings it qualifies for
57names it appears alongside

What stands out in Hans's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 60 years running. Names by top-100 run
Appears alongside 57 other names across 5 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships
Shares a published list with another name across 81 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1997	#2337
1998	#2074
1999	#1383
2000	#2142
2001	#1949
2002	#2636
2003	#1410
2004	#2070
2005	#1377
2006	#1643
2007	#2435
2008	#1511
2009	#3227
2010	#2941
2011	#2613
2012	#3987
2013	#4685
2014	#1819
2015	#3004
2016	#3478
2017	#2172
2018	#2445
2019	#3013
2020	#2960
2021	#3017
2022	#2320
2023	#2813
2024	#3254

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #95 among boys in Norway, #3254 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #11 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #10 among boys in Norway, in 1949 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #97 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Hans appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 20,132 births with the name.

Hans 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.

Hans'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 · Boys	#11 (1945)	#10 (1949)	#97 (2025)	81 of 81	20,132 (1945–2025)	592 (1946)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#1377 (2005)	#3254 (2024)	29 of 29	207 (1996–2024)	14 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#222 (1965)	#222 (1965)	#264 (1980)	3 of 16	12 (1965–1980)	5 (1980)

Hans by decade in Norway · 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 Hans in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	2,621	5 of 10	524
1950s	4,372	10 of 10	437
1960s	4,305	10 of 10	431
1970s	2,999	10 of 10	300
1980s	2,186	10 of 10	219
1990s	1,636	10 of 10	164
2000s	1,038	10 of 10	104
2010s	618	10 of 10	62
2020s	357	6 of 10	60

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 524 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1960 and 1961, when recorded births rose by 96, from 383 to 479.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Hans 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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #10 in Norway in 1949.

Hans'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	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2172	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1643	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#97	69	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#95	67	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#104	63	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#98	63	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#104	60	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#134	35	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#101	65	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#115	55	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#137	47	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#129	53	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#111	63	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#122	58	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#117	61	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#117	65	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#113	72	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#106	79	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#109	77	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#84	103	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#100	79	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#88	94	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#108	73	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#81	98	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#72	102	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#62	120	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#57	128	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#46	164	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#54	136	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#46	164	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#49	163	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#51	149	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#44	175	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#64	122	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#54	157	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#51	171	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#44	198	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#40	201	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#41	204	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#34	214	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#32	220	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#41	184	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#39	187	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#28	220	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#29	227	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#31	221	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#28	234	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#25	275	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#22	285	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#23	274	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#22	255	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#28	236	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#27	264	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#26	304	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#25	313	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#23	351	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#31	326	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#19	391	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#23	375	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#18	417	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#16	441	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#18	424	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#17	472	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#18	442	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#19	425	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#17	447	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#15	479	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#18	383	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#20	393	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#17	427	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#15	439	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#18	392	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#15	426	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#13	459	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#13	460	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#13	460	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#12	445	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#13	471	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#10	516	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#15	469	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#12	515	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#12	592	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#11	529	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#264	5	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	4	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #10, first reached in 1949.

It held a top-100 place in 66 years, 60 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 592 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1965, and 51 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.

Hanora · #164, 26y
Hanorah · #257, 11y
Hans-Petter · #273, 39y
Hansel · #2088, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Karin · #10, 81y
Mari · #11, 81y
Mona · #9, 81y
Helene · #7, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Aud · #10, 59y
Barbara · #10, 79y
Elsie · #10, 47y
Gunnar · #10, 81y

Comparisons involving Hans

Existing comparison pages where Hans 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 Hans in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Hans vs Rolf
In 1945 they stood at #11 and #15 in Norway · Boys, 4 places apart; by 2025 they were #97 and #437.
Hans · Rolf · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Odd vs Hans
In 1945 they stood at #9 and #11 in Norway · Boys, 2 places apart; by 2025 they were #413 and #97.
Odd · Hans · 80 shared years, 1945–2025 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Aksel vs Hans
Aksel and Hans were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #25 and #97.
Aksel · Hans · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Order changes

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

Sander vs Hans
In Norway · Boys, Sander moved into the top 50 at #34 in 1996 as Hans fell out of it to #51, having been #44 the year before.
Sander · Hans · 51 shared years, 1968–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1996 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

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

Anders vs Hans
Anders and Hans were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #293 and #97.
Anders · Hans · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Andreas vs Hans
Andreas and Hans were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #96 and #97.
Andreas · Hans · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Arne vs Hans
Arne and Hans were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #222 and #97.
Arne · Hans · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Hans was ranked #10 in Norway · Boys in 1949. 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.

Hans 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 Hans without appearing here.

Hans moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4685 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1819 and #4632.
Even Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4685 and #4685 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #2172 and #4812.
Shannon Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4685 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #2172 and #4812.
Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3478 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2445 and #4749.

Moved ahead of Hans

Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2320 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #1461.
Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2941 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2613 and #1398.
Aksel Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1819 and #2079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3004 and #1902.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3013 and #2104.

Moved the opposite way to Hans

Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Hans went from #11 to #97 while Alfred went from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Hans went from #11 to #97 while Arthur went from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Hans went from #11 to #97 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.
David Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Hans went from #11 to #97 while David went from #167 to #88.

Moved the same way as Hans

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Hans went from #11 to #97 and Anders from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Hans went from #11 to #97 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Hans went from #11 to #97 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Hans went from #11 to #97 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.

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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #10 in Norway in 1949. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hans

Hans at a glance

What stands out in Hans's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hans across 3 official records

Hans by decade in Norway · Boys

Hans 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 Hans

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Hans

Hans and the names beside it

Hans moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hans

Moved the opposite way to Hans

Moved the same way as Hans

Hans at a glance

What stands out in Hans's record

Hans across 3 official records

Hans by decade in Norway · Boys

Hans 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 Hans

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Hans

Hans and the names beside it

Hans moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hans

Moved the opposite way to Hans

Moved the same way as Hans