Hasaan
Masculine · “Arabic hasan”
Hasan ibn Ali gave up the caliphate. In 661, with an army in the field, he negotiated a treaty with Muawiya and stood down rather than fight a second civil war among Muslims. It is one of the very few abdications of that kind in political history.
How old is the name Hasaan?
Hasaan first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Hasaan alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 600 people named Hasaan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hasaan most popular?
Hasaan peaked in 1997, reaching #2903 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 6,811 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
Where it comes from
From hasan to Hasaan
The story of Hasaan
After Ali's assassination in 661 his elder son Hasan was acknowledged as caliph in Iraq, with Muawiya holding Syria and refusing to submit. Rather than fight, Hasan opened negotiations and agreed terms: he stood down, Muawiya became caliph, and conditions were attached about the succession and the treatment of Ali's supporters, though the sources disagree on the details and on how far they were kept. He retired to Medina and died some years later, poisoned according to most accounts. Shia tradition regards him as the second Imam and reads the abdication as a deliberate preservation of the community; Sunni tradition treats the year as the Year of Unity. His brother Husayn made the opposite decision nineteen years later at Karbala, and the two responses have been contrasted ever since.
Meaning
Arabic hasan, good or handsome
Hasaan is a respelling of Hasan, Arabic for good, beautiful or handsome, from a root meaning to be good. It was borne by the elder grandson of Muhammad, son of Ali and Fatima. The doubled a writes the long vowel of the second syllable. The peak of this spelling is 1997.
How the name formed
- hasan
- Hasan
- Hasaan
Related forms: Hasan · Hasan · Hassan
Pronouncing Hasaan
hah-SAHN
Two syllables, stress on the second. The initial h in Arabic is a strong pharyngeal sound English does not have. Hassan with a doubled s is the commoner English spelling.
Nicknames for Hasaan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 199726 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2903reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- +16.7%7 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Hasaan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hasan in Arabic — same name
- Hasan in Turkish — same name
- Hassan in English — spelling variant
Hasaans among us
people named Hasaan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Hasaan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Hasaan
- #9714
- Hasaan on the 2025 chart
- #738
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Hasaan went to 7 boys in 2025, but Hasan is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 191, which makes it the 738th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,976 places above the chart.
- Hasan184
- Hasaan7
About 1 boy in 8,943 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 244,011 for Hasaan itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alim test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Hasaan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alim climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alim's path sketches the road Hasaan is walking now.
Hasaan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Hasaan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Hasaan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is clear and unambiguously positive.
- The historical figure is central to Islamic tradition.
- Six letters and two syllables, easy to say.
- Hassan and Hasan are both commoner spellings.
- The initial consonant does not exist in English.
- The doubled a is a transliteration device English readers misread.
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Frequently asked
- How many Hasaans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Hasaan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Hasaan?
- Hasaan is one of 2 recorded spellings. Hasan is the more common one — 184 births in 2025 against 7 for Hasaan.
- How popular is the name Hasaan in 2025?
- Hasaan ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Hasaan?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Hasaan — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Hasaan with classmates?
- Hasaan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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