Hannibal
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1885 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 784since 1885
Hannibal over time
Rank among boys' names. Hannibal has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #3,107 | 14 |
| 1983 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,370 | 6 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,871 | 7 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,646 | 8 |
| 1937 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,451 | 7 |
| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | #2,588 | 11 |
| 1924 | #2,641 | 11 |
| 1923 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | #2,265 | 14 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #3,545 | 6 |
| 1916 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,621 | 9 |
| 1914 | #2,457 | 8 |
| 1913 | #1,945 | 9 |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,440 | 5 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,051 | 5 |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #936 | 5 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Hannibal! It came in at #936, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1912, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Hannibal
- 2,383 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #10,695)
- 4,715 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #10,695)
- 5,805 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1885 at #936 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1885
- Highest: 1 in 21,242 boys born in 1899 were named Hannibal (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #936 in 1885, was only 1 in 21,560 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.5% of all boys named Hannibal (137) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #936 (1885) | #936 |
| 1890s | 5 | #1,051 (1899) | #1,051 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,440 (1909) | #1,440 |
| 1910s | 40 | #1,945 (1913) | #2,733 |
| 1920s | 68 | #2,265 (1921) | #3,218 |
| 1930s | 31 | #2,646 (1938) | #3,238 |
| 1940s | 13 | #2,871 (1940) | #3,121 |
| 1950s | 15 | #2,821 (1959) | #3,097 |
| 1960s | 44 | #2,986 (1966) | #3,598 |
| 1970s | 88 | #2,791 (1977) | #3,881 |
| 1980s | 128 | #2,729 (1980) | #3,578 |
| 1990s | 84 | #4,673 (1990) | #5,973 |
| 2000s | 63 | #5,901 (2007) | #8,703 |
| 2010s | 137 | #4,890 (2015) | #6,455 |
| 2020s | 58 | #5,110 (2021) | #7,477 |
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.
Hannibal in 1885
Top boys' names in 1885
More about 1885
boys
107,799 boys got a published name in 1885; 1 in 21,560 of them was named Hannibal, which outranked 14.7% of the 1,097 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 161 names at #936; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.