Hassani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili: variation of Hassan, 'handsome'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries
/hɑsɑni/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Hassani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 21st most common surname.
- KMComoros≈1 in 120(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 490
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 900few records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Comoros, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Swahili: variation of Hassan, 'handsome'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hassani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #124 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 492 | 4 | Hassani | 21 |
| AF Afghanistan | #228 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 900 | 2 | Hassani | 15 |
| MA Morocco | #21 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Hassani | 96 |
| DZ Algeria | #125 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | listed | Hassani | 38 |
| KM Comoros | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 116 | 17K | — | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,051 | 1 in 48K | 1.1K | Hassani | 49 |
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: The page presents a comprehensive list of the most common surnames in Comoros along with their frequencies.; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; the dz-kaggle-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Qutb al-Din al-Safawib. 1495INnot in their usual nameIndian-Persian faqih
- Gholamreza Hassanib. 1928IRayatollah (1928-2018)
- Abderrahmane Tahiri Jouti Hassanib. 1939MAMoroccan playwright
- Abdallah Hassanib. 1954FRFrench politician
- Hamid Hassanib. 1968IRIranian linguist
- Bechir Hassanib. 1969TNTunisian association football referee
- Shamsia Hassanib. 1988AFAfghan artist
- Ilias Hassanib. 1995FRAlgerian and French footballer
- Bilal Hassanib. 1999FRFrench-Moroccan singer, songwriter and vlogger
- Samya Hassanib. 2000NLMoroccan football player
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)Evidence
(measured from records)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.1K | #4,236 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.1K | #4,234 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #42 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Hassani mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili: variation of Hassan, 'handsome'. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Hassani?
- In Swahili /hɑsɑni/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hassani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 139 thousand people named Hassani in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hassani.
- How common is the name Hassani?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,051 people named Hassani, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Hassani compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Hassani is the 124th most common surname of 112,969 surnames 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/hassaniThe 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, “Hassani” — the 124th most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.