Sasan
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sasan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iran than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 609K(measured from records)
- IRIran≈1 in 50K
- SESweden1 in 68K
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.
- Iran (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iran, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sassan in US United States, DE Germany, SE Sweden and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sasan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IR Iran | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Sassan | 51 |
| US United States | 546 | 1 in 609K | 479 | Sassan | 185 |
| AO Angola | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Sassan | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Sassan | 67 |
| EG Egypt | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 506K | listed | — | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 149 | 1 in 68K | 149 | Sassan | 19 |
| AT Austria | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 143K | 8 | Sassan | 16 |
| NO Norway | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 100 | — | 8 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Sasan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The founder of the Sasanian dynasty and the Sasanian Empire.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, productivity
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)
- Sasan Sepantab. 1934IRIranian musician and linguist (1934–2014)
- Sāsān Qahrmānb. 1961IRIranian writer, journalist, poet, translator, playwright and novelist
- Sassan Mohebbib. 1972IRnot in their usual nameIranian composer
- Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiarb. 1984FRnot in their usual nameiranian-French artist
- Sasan Hataminejadb. 1984IRIranian field hockey player
- Sasyb. 1988IRnot in their usual nameIranian rapper
- Sasan Ansarib. 1991IRIranian footballer
- Sasan Jelvanib. 1995DEGerman American football player
- Sasan Hosseinib. 1999IRIranian footballer
- Sassan AsgariAUnot in their usual nameresearcher
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 137 | #129,703 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 113 | #146,201 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #40,568 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- In which country does Sasan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Sasan in Iran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sassan.
- How common is the name Sasan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 546 people named Sasan in 2020, about 1 in 609 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sasan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sasanThe 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, “Sasan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.