Hassam

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hassam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Childe, US painter.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 267K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 342K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 365K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

180 people, 2010

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 267K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Childe, US painter

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hassam 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.

Where Hassam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1801 in 1.8M196Hassam8
BR Brazil581 in 3.7M58——
AR Argentina261 in 1.7M26——
CH Switzerland231 in 365K23——
DK Denmark221 in 267K22——
NO Norway161 in 342K28——
GY Guyana21 in 375K2——

180 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hassam is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hassám

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḥassām

  • Bangla surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia

    Also written হাসাম

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Haşşam

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hassam is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Good or beautiful

    as a nameA Handbook of African Names

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)

18001850190019502000John T. Hassam, b. 1841Alfred Hassam, b. 1843Childe Hassam, b. 1859Evelyne Kestemberg, b. 1918Safia Hassam, b. 1997

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Hassam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000196#88,083
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010180#100,302
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020172#109,465
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—58#94,441
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—26—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202423#33,003
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—22#21,444
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—16#47,323
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520252#623
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Hassam mean, and where does it come from?
Childe, US painter Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Hassam have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 180 people named Hassam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hassam.
Where is Hassam most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hassam is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 267 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hassam?
In the United States, the national register counted 180 people named Hassam in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Hassam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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