as a Last Name
- 1,225
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Hanover
Meaning & Origins
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from the city of Hannover in Lower Saxony. The place name, first recorded in the form Honovere, is a compound of Middle Low German hō, hōch ‘high’ + ōver ‘bank’, ‘shore’.
| 19,723rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,225
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Hanover per capita
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