Hassen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from Hass 2
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hassen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 576(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 19K
- USUnited States1 in 154K
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 Hassen 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 576 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hasen in IN India, SY Syria, ሀሰን in ET Ethiopia and Haesen in BE Belgium.
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)
patronymic from Hass 2.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hassen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #19 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 576 | listed | ሀሰን | 30 |
| IN India | — | 14,555as Hasen | 1 in 91K | 15K | Hasen | 31 |
| BD Bangladesh | #855 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Hassen | 21 |
| TN Tunisia | #470 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Hassen | 33 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Hassen | 34 |
| US United States | — | 2,156 | 1 in 154K | 2.4K | Hassen | 241 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Hasen | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 986as Haesen | 1 in 12K | 986 | Haesen | 33 |
| BZ Belize | #306 | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Hassen | 1 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Hassen 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.
In German, to hate
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
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)
- Mohamed Hassenb. 1953TNTunisian historian, archaeologist and academic
- Fuad Hassenb. 1981NLDutch comedian
- Mouez Hassenb. 1995FRTunisian and French association football player
- Hazem Haj Hassenb. 1996TNTunisian association football player
- Elham HassenTNresearcher
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 55 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,304 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 51 | #25,718 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 50 | #35,832 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #69,725 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- 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
- 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 Hassen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from Hass 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hassen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 188 thousand people named Hassen in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ሀሰን.
- How common is the name Hassen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,156 people named Hassen in 2010, about 1 in 154 thousand residents.
- How common is Hassen compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Hassen is the 19th most common surname of 22,571 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hassen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hassenThe 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, “Hassen” — the 19th most common surname in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.