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Hannibal

boy name · Phoenician origin · 3 syllables

Meaning

grace of Baal (the Carthaginian general); immortalized by Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 1910s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Hannibal peaked in the 1910s.

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