# Hanns (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hanns/  
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 | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | 4,643 |

## People named Hanns

- Hanns Eisler, Austrian and German composer (1898–1962)
- Hanns Heinz Ewers, German actor and writer (1871–1943)
- Hanns Martin Schleyer, German manager and president of industry association, former SS officer and Nazi party mem
- Hanns Albin Rauter, German general (1895-1949)
- Hanns Braun, German athlete and sculptor (1886–1918)
- Hanns Sachs, Austrian psychoanalyst (1881-1947)
- Hanns Kilian, bobsledder (1905–1981)
- Hanns Zischler, German actor, writer and dramaturge (born 1947)
- Hanns Lothar, actor (1929-1967)
- Hanns Bruno Geinitz, German geologist, mineralogist and palaeontologist (1814–1900)
- Hanns Jana, German fencer
- Hanns Ludin, German officer in the Reichswehr and politician (NSDAP), MdR, convicted war criminal (1905

## 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.