Hannu

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hannu is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Late Latin Iōhannēs [in turn from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), in turn from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, “God is gracious”)], variant of Hannes or Johannes, equivalent t.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 178◐
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M
  • SESweden1 in 9.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈32K ●

across 5 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
113 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 178 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

HannuLatin · Finnish●174K records
ХаннуCyrillic · Russian●748 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Хану in UA Ukraine and Ханну in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Hannu: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Hannu
  1. Late Latin Iōhannēs[in●
  2. Koine GreekἸωάννηςIōánnēs●
  3. Biblical HebrewיוֹחָנָןYôḥānān“God is gracious”●

a male given name from Late Latin Iōhannēs [in turn from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), in turn from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, “God is gracious”)], variant of Hannes or Johannes, equivalent to English Johnny or Hansel

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hannu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#6831,351△7.9K rec.1 in 17844KHannu113
US United States—1,3012K rec.—183Hannu91
SE Sweden—1,033△352 rec.1 in 9.9K1KHannu41
IN India—518272 rec.—3Hannu19
UA Ukraine—421430 rec.——Хану10
DE Germany—330287 rec.—1Hannu46
EE Estonia—19060 rec.—11Hannu7
AU Australia—153142 rec.—1Hannu20
GB United Kingdom—117115 rec.——Hannu18
RU Russia—8463 rec.——Ханну24
CA Canada—8184 rec.——Hannu17
ES Spain—6845 rec.——Hannu17

Roughly 31K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 178). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish174K88%
  • Hindi6.1K3%
  • Chinese3.5K2%
  • 3.4K2%
  • English3K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish174,31588%
Hindi6,0843%
Chinese3,5152%
3,4352%
English3,0462%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hannu is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name6.4K records spelled Hannu3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • a separate given name3.9K records spelled Hannu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States

    Also written Hännu

  • French surname505 records spelled Hannu4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland, United States

    Also written Henou, Hénou

  • Arabic given name168 records spelled Hannu5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Ḥannū, Hannū, Hanņű

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hannu is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Hannu är en finsk form av Hannus, ursprungligen en tysk smekform till → Johannes. Hannu förekommer som binamn i Finland redan under 1500-talet.

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  • In English, Finnish form of John

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  • In Hausa, hand

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • A Finnish form of JOHN .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0204060194019601980200045 · 1966

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Hannu in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1921–2013
Yearrecords
19211
19271
19281
19292
19304
19314
19325
19331
19343
19355
19364
19377
19384
19393
19403
194110
194217
19437
19447
194510
194614
194715
194814
19499
195021
195119
195221
195318
195422
195527
195625
195729
195830
195925
196031
196129
196238
196326
196424
196524
196645
196734
196832
196940
197043
197140
197244
197327
197433
197527
197642
197726
197825
197929
198018
198118
198221
198328
198430
198521
198621
198715
198814
198919
199015
199117
199217
199313
19948
199511
19962
19973
19982
20111
20121
20131

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 76 years between 1921–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Hannu Mikkola, b. 1942Hannu Siitonen, b. 1949Puntti Valtonen, b. 1961P-K Keränen, b. 1964Hannu Lintu, b. 1967Hannu Salonen, b. 1972Hannu Tihinen, b. 1976Hannu Manninen, b. 1978Hannu Rajaniemi, b. 1978Hannu Kuru, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 26 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Hannu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—44K#89
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—31K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)19991.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20001.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20011.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20021.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20031.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20041.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20051K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1K#1,655
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20061K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20071K—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 166 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hannu?
We estimate roughly 32 thousand people bear Hannu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Hannu have the most bearers?
We estimate about 31 thousand people bear Hannu in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hannu.
Where is Hannu most common?
Hannu is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 178 people carrying it.
How common is Hannu compared with other names?
In Finland, Hannu is the 68th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Hannu a male or female name?
Hannu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Hannu mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Late Latin Iōhannēs [in turn from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), in turn from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, “God is gracious”)], variant of Hannes or Johannes, equivalent t…
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hannu” — the 68th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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