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Hannah
Pronounced /ˈhænə/
Rank in 2024
#52
Born in 2024
4,054
Peak year
2000 · #2
Origin
Hebrew
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 4,054 girls were named Hannah, about 1 in every 398.
- It peaked in 2000 with 23,087 babies, ranked #2.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 461,647 girls have been named Hannah since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Hannah per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 4.5Millennials1981–96
- 8.3Gen Z1997–12
- 3.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 10,028 babies, 0.49 per 1,000. Silent: 3,750 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,835 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,431 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 126,646 babies, 4.48 per 1,000. Gen Z: 240,298 babies, 8.27 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 65,833 babies, 3.24 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a Wren with the Royal Marines, after Hannah Snell (1723–1792) who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British military. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Ana. ==== Proper noun ==== Hannah (countable and uncountable, plural Hannahs) (biblical) Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament. A female given name from Hebrew.
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname:
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈhænə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Hannah, CC BY-SA 4.0.