Given name & surname
Hanni
Hanni is a surname from German. It is used in English and Finnish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
Hanni is an affectionate form of Hanne.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hanni through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 112
- 0 boys · 112 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,395 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,395 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 34 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 338 as a first name in 2020; 716 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.
Hanni’s family of names
Hanni is an affectionate form of Hanne. In German usage, Hanni has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Hana. In Burmese usage, Hanni is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ဟန်နီ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hanni
- Hanni WenzelLiechtensteiner alpine skierborn 1956
- Hanni OssottVenezuelan writer, poet and translator (1946–2002)
- Hanni WeisseGerman actress (1892-1967)
- Hanni ReinwaldGerman actress (1903–1978)
- Hanni El KhatibAmerican singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalistborn 1981
- Hanni Toosbuy KasprzakDanish businesswoman, heiress (Ecco Sko A/S), billionaireborn 1957
- Hanni RehbornGerman diver (1907–1987)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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