Han
Rare and split almost evenly between women and men: of the 50 or so Poles who carry it, a little over half are men. Hebrew at root, from a name that means "god is gracious".
Han Pronunciation
Han is pronounced KHAHN (/xan/).
What Han means
Where Han comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Han grows from a Hebrew root, the verb ḥanan, "to show favor, to be gracious." Read in full, the sense becomes "God is gracious." The same root feeds Hannah and Johanan, and Han keeps the plainest part of it.
In China the syllable belongs to a separate story. Han is one of the oldest surnames there, and it names both the Han dynasty and the Han people, the largest ethnic group on earth. One short sound, two histories that never met.
A Polish child called Han meets both without knowing it. On a school register the name is short, three letters, quick to read down a class list. It gives no diminutive and no softer variant. Han stands as Han.
That is unusual for a Polish name, where forms multiply freely. Here there is nothing to shorten. The meaning holds at "God is gracious," the reading the Hebrew root carried first.
How many people are named Han
1 in 688587 men in Poland is named Han. 50 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5341 among male names.
Han as a middle name
Han is a first name for 50 men in Poland and a middle name for another 41, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1236th, between Edgardo (41) and Jens (41).
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#1234 Ditmar41
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#1235 Edgardo41
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#1236 Han41
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#1237 Jens41
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#1238 Krishnan41