# Hannibal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hannibal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “may the lord (baal) grace me” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈhænɪbəl/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 784 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 784 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Latin Hannibal, a rendering of Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | 10,040 |
| 2011 | 15 | 5,772 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6,438 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,088 |
| 2014 | 17 | 5,337 |
| 2015 | 19 | 4,944 |
| 2016 | 17 | 5,396 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,840 |
| 2018 | 16 | 5,625 |
| 2019 | 13 | 6,546 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,086 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,198 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,446 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,575 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,151 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: حَنَّبَعْل
- Armenian: Հաննիբալ
- Bulgarian: Ханиба́л
- Catalan: Hanníbal
- Chinese: 汉尼拔
- Dutch: Hannibal
- Esperanto: Hanibalo
- French: Annibal, Hannibal
- German: Hannibal
- Greek: Αννίβας
- Icelandic: Hannibal
- Italian: Annibale
- Latin: Hannibal
- Portuguese: Aníbal
- Russian: Ганниба́л, Аннибал
- Spanish: Aníbal

## People named Hannibal

- Hannibal, Carthaginian general (247–183/181 BC)
- Hannibal Buress, American comedian and writer
- Hannibal Gisko, Carthaginian military commander in 1st Punic War
- Hannibal Sehested, Danish council president (1842-1924)
- Hannibal Goodwin, American inventor in film development
- Hannibal Mago, Carthaginian shofet and general (died 406 BC)
- Hannibal Sehested, Danish diplomat (1609-1666)
- Wolfgang Hannibal von Schrattenbach, Austrian priest
- Hannibal Monomachus, Carthaginian military officer
- Vito Acconci, American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist (1940-2017)
- Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer (1860–1940)
- Hermann Schubert, German mathematician (1848-1911)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.