Meaning not yet researched.
Hansel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 103 in 2025. Its best rank was #959 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #959 in 1905; #1,638 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hansel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,638 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #959.
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Hansel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 103 boys in 2025. Peak: #959 in 1905 · most boys in one year: 134 (2021).
In 2025, 103 US boys were named Hansel, making it the 1,638th most common boys’ name of the year, up 26 places from #1,664 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 101 boys named Hansel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #959, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 134, in 2021. For comparison, it was #1,721 in 2015 and #2,258 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hansel in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 8 babies. In all, 3,636 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 684 babies named Hansel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 927 US boys were named Hansel; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,583 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hansel ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #965 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Hanzel, Hancel and Hansell 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hanzel (357), Hancel (78), Hansell (64), Hanssel (18), Hanzell (6).
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 Hansel 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #965 | — |
| Texas | 23 | #1,024 | #1,166 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,028 | #1,217 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,269 | #1,137 |
| California | 7 | #2,062 | #1,278 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 103 | #1,638 |
| 2024 | — | — | 101 | #1,664 |
| 2023 | — | — | 98 | #1,713 |
| 2022 | — | — | 120 | #1,511 |
| 2021 | — | — | 134 | #1,373 |
| 2020 | — | — | 85 | #1,782 |
| 2019 | — | — | 77 | #1,922 |
| 2018 | — | — | 58 | #2,313 |
| 2017 | — | — | 78 | #1,872 |
| 2016 | — | — | 73 | #1,979 |
| 2015 | — | — | 90 | #1,721 |
| 2014 | — | — | 126 | #1,356 |
| 2013 | — | — | 98 | #1,582 |
| 2012 | — | — | 42 | #2,841 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,561 |
| 2010 | — | — | 21 | #4,575 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,588 |
| 2008 | — | — | 43 | #2,802 |
| 2007 | — | — | 29 | #3,632 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,546 |
| 2005 | — | — | 28 | #3,480 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,174 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,499 |
| 2002 | — | — | 16 | #4,778 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,764 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,354 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,625 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,753 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,325 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,241 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,606 |
| 1994 | — | — | 22 | #3,160 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,536 |
| 1992 | — | — | 36 | #2,143 |
| 1991 | — | — | 33 | #2,204 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,277 |
| 1989 | — | — | 19 | #3,136 |
| 1988 | — | — | 30 | #2,104 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #2,996 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,632 |
| 1985 | — | — | 21 | #2,454 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,469 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,917 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,459 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,294 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,393 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,657 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,486 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,275 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,832 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,809 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,719 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,895 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,947 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,787 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,251 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,142 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,187 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,694 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #2,026 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,590 |
| 1963 | — | — | 15 | #2,151 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,223 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,096 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,743 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,123 |
| 1958 | — | — | 18 | #1,923 |
| 1957 | — | — | 19 | #1,858 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,550 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,870 |
| 1954 | — | — | 16 | #1,995 |
| 1953 | — | — | 28 | #1,442 |
| 1952 | — | — | 25 | #1,530 |
| 1951 | — | — | 24 | #1,538 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,258 |
| 1949 | — | — | 25 | #1,477 |
| 1948 | — | — | 17 | #1,848 |
| 1947 | — | — | 25 | #1,502 |
| 1946 | — | — | 22 | #1,534 |
| 1945 | — | — | 19 | #1,554 |
| 1944 | — | — | 22 | #1,459 |
| 1943 | — | — | 26 | #1,382 |
| 1942 | — | — | 23 | #1,482 |
| 1941 | — | — | 19 | #1,614 |
| 1940 | — | — | 27 | #1,297 |
| 1939 | — | — | 19 | #1,551 |
| 1938 | — | — | 25 | #1,352 |
| 1937 | — | — | 25 | #1,354 |
| 1936 | — | — | 25 | #1,341 |
| 1935 | — | — | 30 | #1,232 |
| 1934 | — | — | 33 | #1,156 |
| 1933 | — | — | 23 | #1,424 |
| 1932 | — | — | 37 | #1,116 |
| 1931 | — | — | 39 | #1,088 |
| 1930 | — | — | 27 | #1,408 |
| 1929 | — | — | 37 | #1,147 |
| 1928 | — | — | 34 | #1,238 |
| 1927 | — | — | 46 | #1,031 |
| 1926 | — | — | 40 | #1,136 |
| 1925 | — | — | 43 | #1,058 |
| 1924 | — | — | 47 | #1,038 |
| 1923 | — | — | 42 | #1,105 |
| 1922 | — | — | 32 | #1,293 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,446 | 33 | #1,275 |
| 1920 | — | — | 40 | #1,128 |
| 1919 | — | — | 36 | #1,173 |
| 1918 | — | — | 37 | #1,134 |
| 1917 | — | — | 44 | #987 |
| 1916 | — | — | 29 | #1,250 |
| 1915 | — | — | 39 | #1,027 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,642 |
| 1913 | — | — | 15 | #1,401 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,669 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,073 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #959 |
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).