Hassan
Masculine · Arabic roots · “Good”
Hassan is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 12,300 boys against 7 girls since 1880.
Hassan comes from an Arabic root that means goodness and beauty, and it has been in continuous use since the seventh century — one of the oldest given names still handed to newborns today. It traveled with Islam from the Arabian Peninsula into Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili and West African naming, picking up spellings but never changing shape. Two syllables, open vowels, no consonant cluster anywhere in it.
How old is the name Hassan?
Hassan first appears in US birth records in 1923 — 102 years ago. The typical Hassan alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 12,000 people named Hassan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hassan most popular?
Hassan peaked in 2025, reaching #625 nationally. Today it ranks #625, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ḥasan (Arabic) to Hassan
The story of Hassan
The name belongs to the Arabic root ḥ-s-n, the same root behind words for goodness and beauty. Its great early bearer was Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, born in Medina in the seventh century and revered across Sunni and Shia tradition alike — which is why the name spread wherever Islam did, rather than staying regional. The closely linked Ḥusayn, the name of his brother, is grammatically a diminutive of Ḥasan, so the two traveled together as a pair for centuries. Turkish Hasan, Persian and Urdu Hasan, Swahili Hassani and Francophone African Hassane are all the same name wearing local orthography.
Meaning
Good, handsome, beautiful
From the Arabic root ḥ-s-n, which carries the sense of being good or fine. Worth knowing: the English spelling Hassan covers two distinct Arabic names — Ḥasan, 'good, handsome', and Ḥassān, an intensive form of the same root. Both are old and both are common.
How the name formed
- ḤasanArabic
- Hasan
- Hassan
- Hassane
Related forms: حسن (Ḥasan) · Hasan · Hasan · Hassani · Hassane · Hasan
Pronouncing Hassan
hah-SAHN
Arabic and Turkish speakers stress the second syllable: hah-SAHN. In American English you will also hear HASS-un, with the weight in front. Both are in real use, so it is worth deciding early which one the family will correct people toward.
Nicknames for Hassan
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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
- 1923
- Most boys named
- 2025447 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #625reached in 2025
- Change vs 2023
- +14.6%447 in 2025, from 390
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.
Hassan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- حسن (Ḥasan) in Arabic — same name
- Hasan in Turkish — spelling variant
- Hasan in Persian / Urdu — transliteration
- Hassani in Swahili — related form
- Hassane in French (West Africa) — spelling variant
- Hasan in Bosnian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, California, Texas.
Hassans among us
people named Hassan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 3,821 born in 2025 was named Hassan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jedidiah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Hassan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jedidiah climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jedidiah's path sketches the road Hassan is walking now.
Hassan is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Hassan is headed
Hassan looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Hassan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Hassan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Recognized on sight across the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, South Asia and much of Africa — the same two syllables work in dozens of languages.
- Phonetic in English: nothing silent, nothing counterintuitive, and short enough for a young child to write.
- An unbroken record stretching back to the seventh century, with no gap where it fell out of use.
- Currently gaining ground in US records rather than fading, so it reads as contemporary and old at the same time.
- Strongly represented in Michigan, California and Texas, where the pronunciation is already well established.
- Two spellings compete — Hassan and Hasan — and both are correct for different traditions. Whichever you choose, the other will show up on forms and in emails for life.
- The stress varies by speaker: hah-SAHN in Arabic and Turkish, HASS-un in much American English. Expect a lifetime of small corrections, or a decision to let both stand.
- The name is deeply tied to Islamic history through Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī. For many families that is the whole point; if it isn't, know that the association travels with the name.
- In most American classrooms he is likely to be the only Hassan, which means no last-initial problem and also no built-in company.
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Frequently asked
- How many Hassans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,000 people named Hassan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Hassan in 2025?
- Hassan ranks #625 among US boy names in 2025, with 447 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Hassan?
- About 1 in every 3,821 US boys born in 2025 was named Hassan — 447 in all.
- Will my child share the name Hassan with classmates?
- Hassan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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