Hasan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the Arabic personal name Hasan, literally 'good, handsome'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hasan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hasan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 154(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 177
- SYSyria≈1 in 206
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hasan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #170 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 434 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154 (inferred from the name graph)
531,386 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hussin in EG Egypt and Hasani in TZ Tanzania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Arabic personal name Hasan, literally 'good, handsome'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hasan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #7 | 531,386 | 1 in 154 | 531K | Hasan | 194 |
| BD Bangladesh | #8 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 421 | listed | Hasan | 203 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 440 | listed | Hussin | 231 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 424 | 24 | Hasani | 40 |
| SY Syria | #53 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 206 | — | Hasan | 63 |
| CY Cyprus | #5 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 177 | — | Hasan | 38 |
531,386 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hasan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, ‘good, handsome’; name of Prophet Muḥammad’s grandson
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, good, handsome; name of Hasan, grandson of the Prophet.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
from the Arabic personal name Hasan ‘good’, ‘handsome’. Hasan (c. 625-669) and his brother Husain were sons of the khalif 'All ibn AbT Talib (see Ali) and, through their mother Fatima, grandsons of the Prophet Muhammad. Shiite Muslims regard Hasan and his brother Husain as the true successors of Muhammad. The name is popular among Sunni Muslims as well as Shiites.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
‘Good’, ‘beautiful’. Shiites regard Hasan and his brother Husayn as the legitimate successors of Muhammad.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, The eldest son of Ali and brother of Husayn, both are Imams.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hasan ibn Alib. 625SA5th Rashidun Caliph (r. 661) and second Shia Imam
- Abu Nuwasb. 756IRnot in their usual name8th-century classical Arabic poet
- Hasan-i Sabbahb. 1037IRThe founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
- Hasan al-Bannab. 1906EGEgyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949)
- Hassan IIb. 1929MAKing of Morocco from 1961 to 1999
- Omar al-Bashirb. 1944SDnot in their usual namePresident of Sudan from 1989 to 2019
- Hassan Rowhanib. 1948IRPresident of Iran from 2013 to 2021
- Hasan Nasrallahb. 1960LBLeader of Hezbollah (1960-2024)
- Hasan Salihamidžićb. 1977BABosnian football player and executive
- Hasan Minhajb. 1985USAmerican actor and comedian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 115 sources across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 531K | #6 |
Reference works 11
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hasan mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Arabic personal name Hasan, literally 'good, handsome' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Hasan a male or female name?
- Hasan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Hasan?
- A machine transcription gives /hasan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Hasan have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 531 thousand people named Hasan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hasan.
- Where is Hasan most common?
- Hasan is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 154 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Hasan?
- In the etymology graph, Hossein, Alassane and Lassana are forms of the same name in other languages; Hüseyin, Hussein and Husayn are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Hasan?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 531,386 people named Hasan in 2025, about 1 in 154 residents.
- How common is Hasan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Hasan is the 7th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hasanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hasan” — the 7th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.