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The HANNAH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,164 1717 0.007 71
United States (1880 census) 4,990 1231 0.01 100
Change since 1880 +14174 -486 -0.003 -29
Other Countries
Australia 1,122 1473 0.007 69
United Kingdom 5,434 1153 0.012 118
Top States for HANNAH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,351 2456 0.004 40
Georgia 1,197 951 0.015 146
Florida 1,165 1864 0.007 73
Tennessee 1,127 813 0.020 198
Ohio 1,053 1339 0.009 93
Top States for HANNAH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,049 749 0.024 236
West Virginia 371 779 0.021 205
Tennessee 1,127 813 0.020 198
Mississippi 513 917 0.018 180
South Carolina 642 1080 0.016 160

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HANNAH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HANNAH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HANNAH in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HANNAH by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HANNAH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HANNAH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HANNAH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HANNAH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 328 1.71
White (Hispanic) 259 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 107 0.56
Asian/Pacific 90 0.47
White (Caucasian) 13,528 70.59
Black/African American 4,852 25.32

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HANNAH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HANNAH in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HANNAH.

Similar names to HANNAH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HANNAH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HANNAH

The following words are slight variants of HANNAH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.