Hanaan
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- ha-NAAN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Hanaan is a name of Arabic origin, meaning “tenderness, compassion”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Hanaan mean?
Arabic: spelling of Hanan
“tenderness, compassion”
Arabic word for tenderness and affection; in Hebrew, Hanan is a separate boys' name meaning gracious.
Meaning borrowed from Hanan.
Is Hanaan a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Hanaan has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK.
How popular is Hanaan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 15% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Hanaan, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hanaan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 31 girls in the UK were given Hanaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,018, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
- Hanan 25
- Hanaan 6
In 2021, 60% of the babies named Hanaan in the UK were girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Hanaan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 7 | #3,360 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 10 | #2,263 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 10 | #1,954 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
How popular is Hanaan in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Hanaan in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hanaan in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
Names like Hanaan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayat, Safa, Hafsa, Haniya, Imaan, Ayah, Emaan, Zainab, Hiba, Raya, Haya, Inaya
Other spellings of Hanaan
Names related to Hanaan
Hannah, Hana, Hanna, Hania, Hanaa, Hannan, Hayaan, Hannia, Hanny, Hananiah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hanaan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hanaan, updated 20 October 2026.