Hazan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: status name for a cantor in a synagogue, Hebrew chazan
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hazan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 406K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 7K
- UYUruguay1 in 42K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
status name for a cantor in a synagogue, Hebrew chazan. 2 See Hasson .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hazan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Hazan | 19 |
| IL Israel | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Hazan | 62 |
| FR France | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 141 | — | 7 |
| US United States | 819 | 1 in 406K | 929 | Hazan | 244 |
| BR Brazil | 282 | 1 in 751K | 282 | — | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 81 | 1 in 42K | 81 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Hazan | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Hazan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
status name for a cantor in a synagogue. Compare Chazen.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Turkish, Güz, yaprak dökümü mevsimi, sonbahar.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Basque, Third-person singular (hark), taking informal second-person singular (hi) as direct object, present subjunctive form of izan.
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)
- Jacob Chazanb. 1899ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Bella Yaari Hazanb. 1922ILJewish resistance and underground activist in Nazi ghettos and camps
- Marcella Hazanb. 1924ITItalian-born American cookbook author
- Éric Hazanb. 1936FRFrench writer and publisher (1936–2024)
- Haim Hazanb. 1947ILIsraeli anthropologist
- Adeline Hazanb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Giuliano Hazanb. 1958USAmerican food writer
- Alon Hazanb. 1967ILIsraeli former association footballer, and former head-coach of the Israel national team
- Rita Hazanb. 1974UShair colorist and salon owner
- Liran Hazanb. 2006ILIsraeli footballer
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 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 929 | #27,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 819 | #28,998 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 662 | #32,703 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 282 | #27,845 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 141 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 125 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 96 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 14 | — |
Reference works 8
- 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 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
- 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
- Where does the name Hazan come from?
- status name for a cantor in a synagogue, Hebrew chazan. 2 See Hasson . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- What does the name Hazan mean?
- Recorded meaning: status name for a cantor in a synagogue, Hebrew chazan.
- In which country does Hazan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Hazan in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hazan.
- How common is the name Hazan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 819 people named Hazan in 2010, about 1 in 406 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hazanThe 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, “Hazan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.