Given name & surname · also German
Hannes
“God is gracious”
Hannes is a variant of Hans. In Scandinavian use, Hans carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Original GermanHans
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hannes is a variant of Hans. In Scandinavian use, Hans carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Hannes comes from German, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Hannes is used as a shortened form of Johannes.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hannes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 37
- 37 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 286 as a first name in 2020; 507 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hannes’s family of names
In German usage, Hannes is a short form of Hans. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Hannes shares an earlier linguistic root with Johannes. In Icelandic usage, Hannes has a conventional equivalent in the English form John.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Hannes has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
16 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Hansvariant · German, hrx
- Johannesvariant · German, Norwegian Bokmål
- Hannediminutive · German
- Hanskinickname · Finnish
- Schwongvariant · hrx
- Schängvariant · Limburgish
- Hannuvariant · Finnish
- Ioannesvariant · Norwegian Bokmål
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Across languages 38
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Johannalso known as · German
- Janalso known as · Polish, German
- Jackequivalent
- Johnsee also · English
- Giovanniequivalent
- Evanequivalent
- Juanequivalent
- Ivanequivalent
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- Johnnyequivalent · English
- Johanequivalent
- Joanequivalent
- JeanFrench
- Gianequivalent
- Jonequivalent
- Yannisequivalent
- Ioannisequivalent
- Ionequivalent
- Yannequivalent
- Ivoequivalent
- Ioanequivalent
- Jaanequivalent
- Ieuanequivalent
- Ivanoequivalent
- Hannsequivalent
- Honzaequivalent
- Jóhannesequivalent
- Jógvanequivalent
- 傑克Chinese
- ジョンJapanese
- ΓιάννηςGreek
- Jóhannequivalent
- Jánosequivalent
- Ifanequivalent
- Іванequivalent
- Siônequivalent
- Jónequivalent
- Seánequivalent
- Иванequivalent
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Hannes
- Hannes AlfvénSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Hannes Þór HalldórssonIcelandic filmmaker and former professional footballerborn 1984
- Hannes LöhrGerman footballer and manager (1942-2016)
- Hannes MeyerSwiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus (1889-1954)
- Hannes HafsteinIcelandic politician (1861-1922)
- Hannes DelcroixHaitian association football player (born 1999)
- Hannes AignerGerman kayakerborn 1989
- Hannes WolfAustrian footballerborn 1999
- Hannes Trinklalpine skierborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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