Hassan

Locally spelled Hasan in TR Türkiye, IN India, SY Syria and 2 more, Hutson in US United States, 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.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hassan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Karim
• Amir
• Ibrahim
• Omar
• Malik

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Hassan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name8 spellings in the group

  Also written Ḥassan, Ḥaṣṣān, Ḥassăn, Ḥassān, Hassán

• a separate given name18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written ഹുസ്സൻ, ஹஸனீ, ഹസ്സൻ, ஹஸன், Hasan

77 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.

Hassan 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, ‘handsome, good’; also the name of Ḥasan, grandson of the Prophet.

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In French, Arabic name meaning “handsome, good, beautiful”.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In English, Arabic name meaning 'handsome' or 'good'.

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• from a personal name based on Arabic hassan ‘beautifier’. The poet Hassan bin Sabit was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hOsain ‘descendant of Osdn', a personal name formed from a diminutive of os ‘deer’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family 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.

• Hassan Rowhanib. 1948IRPresident of Iran from 2013 to 2021
• Samia Suluhu Hassanb. 1960TZPresident of Tanzania since 2021
• Hasan Nasrallahb. 1960LBLeader of Hezbollah (1960-2024)

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).

140 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 71 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Hassan mean, and where does it come from?

(i) from a Muslim personal name derived from Arabic hassan 'beautifier'; (ii) see Hasan Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

Which countries have the most people named Hassan?

In Türkiye, the national register counted about 531 thousand people named Hasan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Egypt, Bangladesh, India and Tanzania; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Hassan?

In the United States, the national register counted 18,513 people named Hassan in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.

How common is Hassan compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Hassan is the 7th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.