Name meaning & stats
Hansel
Hansel. 2,710 US babies since 1940, peak 2021.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2021
2,710 US babies were named Hansel between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Hansel (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 88% of the family
- Hansel 88%
- Hanzel 12%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2021)