boys:
52 births since 1918
#4534 (1st percentile)
overall:
52 births since 1918
#7687 (1st percentile)
The name Hansell is the #7,687 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,534 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1918.
Hansell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for boys in 1918). Birth data for Hansell is available in 8 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Hansell reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #541) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Hansell ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 44.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hansell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hansell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Hansell is pronounced as HAN-suhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAN-sehl, at 18.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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