Hansen
- #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 887since 1917
Hansen over time
Rank among boys' names. Hansen has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,314 | 35 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 35 |
| 2023 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #3,582 | 31 |
| 2020 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #3,241 | 31 |
| 2004 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #3,794 | 22 |
| 2001 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #3,376 | 23 |
| 1998 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
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| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
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| 1951 | #3,066 | 7 |
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| 1917 | #3,545 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Hansen! It came in at #3,545, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1950, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Hansen is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,203 · 1 in 29,246
Best ever in a state: #1,497 in Texas, 1992.
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| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Hansen
- 21 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #3,314)
- 497 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #3,314)
- 1,397 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #3,314)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1963 at #3,044 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 were named Hansen (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,044 in 1963, was only 1 in 253,885 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.7% of all boys named Hansen (219) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,545 (1917) | #3,545 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 7 | #3,066 (1951) | #3,066 |
| 1960s | 8 | #3,044 (1963) | #3,044 |
| 1970s | 24 | #4,375 (1971) | #4,694 |
| 1980s | 99 | #3,072 (1987) | #4,440 |
| 1990s | 148 | #3,376 (1999) | #4,373 |
| 2000s | 193 | #3,241 (2005) | #4,651 |
| 2010s | 219 | #3,161 (2016) | #4,667 |
| 2020s | 183 | #3,314 (2025) | #3,656 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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