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Hania

A Hebrew name at root, from Channah, carrying the sense of grace and favor. It began as a short form of Hanna but stands on its own now, still rare enough that most Poles have never met one.

Hania Pronunciation

Hania is pronounced KHAH-nyah (/ˈxaɲa/).

Alive in 2025
244
Newborns 2025
10
National rank
#1980

What Hania means

Where Hania comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Hania begins in Hebrew, in the name Channah, and the sense it holds is grace, favor. Polish speakers took that root and made it soft and close. Hania is the name for a girl you already know well.

The name keeps company with a wider family. Helena and Helene stand as variants, Halina as another, and the diminutives Hela and Helenka shorten things further still. Each one bends toward affection. A teacher reading a class register in Kraków might find two of them on one page and know at once which child answers to which.

Grace and favor sat in the Hebrew Channah from the start, so this is the origin and not a later gloss. In Poland the name has its day on the twenty-sixth of July, shared with Anna. A child answers to Hania long before she can spell it. In Polish the same pair of words is wdzięk, łaska.

How many people are named Hania

1 in 92393 women in Poland is named Hania. 244 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1980 among female names.

People with the name Hania 2019 → 2025
244 +113 since 2019
2020 143 +12
2021 163 +20
2022 175 +12
2023 200 +25
2024 222 +22
2025 244 +22

Hania's popularity over time

10 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #695 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.

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10 newborns with the name Hania in 2025
national rank #695 that year

Where Hania is most popular

Hania is most popular in Opole, 247% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+181%) and Lower Silesian (+155%). It is least common in Masovian, 32% below average.

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Hania as a middle name

Hania is a first name for 244 women in Poland and a middle name for another 60, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 876th, between Eileen (60) and Leonie (60).

As a first name
244
As a middle name
60
first name 80% middle name 20%
Middle-name ranking women

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