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Hanif

Gender
Boy
Origin
Arabic
UK rank, 2025
#2,742 for boys
US rank, 2025
#8,906 for boys

Hanif is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,742nd for boys in the UK (8 babies) and 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).

What does Hanif mean?

Arabic

A male given name from Arabic.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Hanif a girl's or a boy's name?

Hanif is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the UK and 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Hanif in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#2,742among boys
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 37,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 111% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 8 boys in the UK were named Hanif, making it the 2,742nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,025th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 13 boys.

Half of all the boys named Hanif in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2014. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

Among boys in 2025, it was 2,658th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 13 in 20122025
Hanif in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#2,742
20246#3,335
20235#3,712
20228#2,678
20210–
20204#4,025
20190–
20185#3,596
20176#3,191
20165#3,655
20153#4,955
20144#4,063
20137#2,792
201213#1,850
20119#2,311
201010#2,141
200912#1,852
20088#2,384
200710#1,987
200610#1,845
20059#1,957
200411#1,583
20037#2,054
200211#1,384
20015#2,326
20007#1,775
19997#1,749
19987#1,727
19978#1,532
19964#2,442

How popular is Hanif in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,906among boys
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 210,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadyup 13% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Hanif, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,231st. Its busiest year was 2004, with 29 boys. It first appears in the records in 1971.

Half of all the boys named Hanif in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1971Busiest: 29 in 20042025
Hanif in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#8,906
202416#5,655
202320#4,882
202219#5,015
20218#8,820
202017#5,231
201913#6,401
20189#8,150
201711#7,091
201614#6,048
201516#5,503
201419#4,862
201314#5,919
201222#4,387
201110#7,495
201022#4,365
200916#5,551
200829#3,643
200722#4,373
200615#5,521
200523#3,937
200429#3,281
200318#4,421
200213#5,388
200117#4,470
200012#5,581
199914#4,756
199822#3,386
199712#4,954
199625#2,906
199511#5,118
199414#4,284
19939#5,764
199210#5,228
199111#4,752
199017#3,461
198915#3,612
19887#5,745
198714#3,334
198611#3,878
198517#2,825
198417#2,705
198314#3,070
198213#3,281
198114#3,028
198012#3,429
197918#2,567
19789#3,855
197713#3,036
19766#4,933
197511#3,244
19746#4,632
19735#5,099
19720–
19715#4,905

Names like Hanif

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Hamza Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah Hassan Umar Mustafa Musa Saif Fahad Khalid Hammad

Names related to Hanif

Haneef

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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, “Hanif: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hanif, updated 20 October 2026.