Meaning not yet researched.
Hans: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 146 in 2025. Its best rank was #291 in 1885.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #291 in 1885; #1,325 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hans in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,325 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1885, at #291.
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Hans: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 146 boys in 2025. Peak: #291 in 1885 · most boys in one year: 271 (1970).
In 2025, 146 US boys were named Hans, making it the 1,325th most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 1 more than the 145 boys named Hans in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #291, reached in 1885. The most boys given the name in a single year was 271, in 1970. For comparison, it was #1,421 in 2015 and #846 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hans in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 21 babies with the name. In all, 15,682 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,338 babies named Hans.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,312 US boys were named Hans; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 146. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,699 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hans ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #456 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include John (5,204,377 babies since 1880), Jack (759,677 babies since 1880), Joan (488,939 babies since 1880) and Jean (483,475 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hanz and Hansh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, German, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hanz (130), Hansh (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Hans in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 12 | #456 | #555 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #536 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #798 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #935 | #1,009 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,039 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,191 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,268 | #2,517 |
| California | 14 | #1,324 | #1,061 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,703 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 146 | #1,325 |
| 2024 | — | — | 145 | #1,325 |
| 2023 | — | — | 112 | #1,561 |
| 2022 | — | — | 133 | #1,400 |
| 2021 | — | — | 137 | #1,352 |
| 2020 | — | — | 117 | #1,465 |
| 2019 | — | — | 123 | #1,423 |
| 2018 | — | — | 122 | #1,438 |
| 2017 | — | — | 145 | #1,260 |
| 2016 | — | — | 132 | #1,351 |
| 2015 | — | — | 121 | #1,421 |
| 2014 | — | — | 134 | #1,313 |
| 2013 | — | — | 98 | #1,581 |
| 2012 | — | — | 91 | #1,680 |
| 2011 | — | — | 67 | #2,027 |
| 2010 | — | — | 104 | #1,546 |
| 2009 | — | — | 113 | #1,476 |
| 2008 | — | — | 108 | #1,508 |
| 2007 | — | — | 115 | #1,417 |
| 2006 | — | — | 119 | #1,363 |
| 2005 | — | — | 129 | #1,229 |
| 2004 | — | — | 112 | #1,322 |
| 2003 | — | — | 128 | #1,168 |
| 2002 | — | — | 98 | #1,349 |
| 2001 | — | — | 127 | #1,115 |
| 2000 | — | — | 132 | #1,078 |
| 1999 | — | — | 153 | #949 |
| 1998 | — | — | 150 | #943 |
| 1997 | — | — | 141 | #953 |
| 1996 | — | — | 125 | #1,002 |
| 1995 | — | — | 152 | #889 |
| 1994 | — | — | 141 | #924 |
| 1993 | — | — | 149 | #871 |
| 1992 | — | — | 171 | #798 |
| 1991 | — | — | 161 | #817 |
| 1990 | — | — | 189 | #742 |
| 1989 | — | — | 183 | #730 |
| 1988 | — | — | 160 | #750 |
| 1987 | — | — | 164 | #713 |
| 1986 | — | — | 178 | #672 |
| 1985 | — | — | 179 | #656 |
| 1984 | — | — | 185 | #628 |
| 1983 | — | — | 174 | #649 |
| 1982 | — | — | 215 | #589 |
| 1981 | — | — | 222 | #573 |
| 1980 | — | — | 211 | #598 |
| 1979 | — | — | 194 | #613 |
| 1978 | — | — | 182 | #618 |
| 1977 | — | — | 205 | #589 |
| 1976 | — | — | 194 | #586 |
| 1975 | — | — | 196 | #575 |
| 1974 | — | — | 233 | #518 |
| 1973 | — | — | 228 | #521 |
| 1972 | — | — | 224 | #530 |
| 1971 | — | — | 266 | #497 |
| 1970 | — | — | 271 | #494 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,872 | 257 | #477 |
| 1968 | — | — | 242 | #489 |
| 1967 | — | — | 268 | #464 |
| 1966 | — | — | 233 | #496 |
| 1965 | — | — | 222 | #511 |
| 1964 | — | — | 252 | #498 |
| 1963 | — | — | 238 | #518 |
| 1962 | — | — | 212 | #546 |
| 1961 | — | — | 203 | #553 |
| 1960 | — | — | 206 | #548 |
| 1959 | — | — | 180 | #584 |
| 1958 | — | — | 185 | #568 |
| 1957 | — | — | 140 | #650 |
| 1956 | — | — | 158 | #605 |
| 1955 | — | — | 150 | #605 |
| 1954 | — | — | 123 | #655 |
| 1953 | — | — | 121 | #649 |
| 1952 | — | — | 82 | #777 |
| 1951 | — | — | 75 | #815 |
| 1950 | — | — | 65 | #846 |
| 1949 | — | — | 61 | #880 |
| 1948 | — | — | 45 | #1,052 |
| 1947 | — | — | 49 | #1,032 |
| 1946 | — | — | 35 | #1,184 |
| 1945 | — | — | 43 | #979 |
| 1944 | — | — | 50 | #900 |
| 1943 | — | — | 50 | #946 |
| 1942 | — | — | 73 | #749 |
| 1941 | — | — | 60 | #822 |
| 1940 | — | — | 69 | #740 |
| 1939 | — | — | 57 | #807 |
| 1938 | — | — | 76 | #695 |
| 1937 | — | — | 69 | #735 |
| 1936 | — | — | 76 | #681 |
| 1935 | — | — | 73 | #714 |
| 1934 | — | — | 92 | #626 |
| 1933 | — | — | 80 | #653 |
| 1932 | — | — | 83 | #671 |
| 1931 | — | — | 83 | #657 |
| 1930 | — | — | 101 | #612 |
| 1929 | — | — | 87 | #662 |
| 1928 | — | — | 68 | #790 |
| 1927 | — | — | 89 | #687 |
| 1926 | — | — | 96 | #644 |
| 1925 | — | — | 81 | #720 |
| 1924 | — | — | 61 | #891 |
| 1923 | — | — | 66 | #836 |
| 1922 | — | — | 62 | #877 |
| 1921 | — | — | 68 | #837 |
| 1920 | — | — | 63 | #855 |
| 1919 | — | — | 61 | #841 |
| 1918 | — | — | 78 | #724 |
| 1917 | — | — | 86 | #643 |
| 1916 | — | — | 85 | #632 |
| 1915 | — | — | 98 | #573 |
| 1914 | — | — | 73 | #588 |
| 1913 | — | — | 72 | #509 |
| 1912 | — | — | 56 | #535 |
| 1911 | — | — | 26 | #601 |
| 1910 | — | — | 27 | #548 |
| 1909 | — | — | 29 | #476 |
| 1908 | — | — | 16 | #669 |
| 1907 | — | — | 14 | #720 |
| 1906 | — | — | 16 | #602 |
| 1905 | — | — | 17 | #579 |
| 1904 | — | — | 17 | #547 |
| 1903 | — | — | 16 | #559 |
| 1902 | — | — | 17 | #528 |
| 1901 | — | — | 14 | #542 |
| 1900 | — | — | 18 | #590 |
| 1899 | — | — | 17 | #465 |
| 1898 | — | — | 27 | #381 |
| 1897 | — | — | 21 | #416 |
| 1896 | — | — | 16 | #522 |
| 1895 | — | — | 22 | #420 |
| 1894 | — | — | 19 | #446 |
| 1893 | — | — | 14 | #519 |
| 1892 | — | — | 28 | #364 |
| 1891 | — | — | 25 | #343 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #446 |
| 1889 | — | — | 25 | #353 |
| 1888 | — | — | 27 | #354 |
| 1887 | — | — | 23 | #345 |
| 1886 | — | — | 20 | #398 |
| 1885 | — | — | 33 | #291 |
| 1884 | — | — | 26 | #348 |
| 1883 | — | — | 28 | #313 |
| 1882 | — | — | 27 | #338 |
| 1881 | — | — | 23 | #343 |
| 1880 | — | — | 21 | #376 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).