# Hasan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hasan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “fine”, “good”, “good-looking”, “handsome”, “manly”, “strong” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Hassan |
| US babies named this | 5,398 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,398 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,685, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic حَسَن (ḥasan, “fine, good, good-looking, handsome, manly; strong”).

## What it means

Hasan is grouped under beauty and strong.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 114 | 1,443 |
| 2012 | 123 | 1,372 |
| 2013 | 128 | 1,338 |
| 2014 | 121 | 1,401 |
| 2015 | 126 | 1,375 |
| 2016 | 151 | 1,239 |
| 2017 | 158 | 1,183 |
| 2018 | 145 | 1,269 |
| 2019 | 143 | 1,298 |
| 2020 | 139 | 1,300 |
| 2021 | 131 | 1,401 |
| 2022 | 155 | 1,257 |
| 2023 | 170 | 1,189 |
| 2024 | 168 | 1,207 |
| 2025 | 184 | 1,147 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 133 | 331 |
| 2012 | 129 | 341 |
| 2013 | 123 | 337 |
| 2014 | 91 | 442 |
| 2015 | 96 | 429 |
| 2016 | 91 | 448 |
| 2017 | 83 | 488 |
| 2018 | 105 | 406 |
| 2019 | 70 | 541 |
| 2020 | 93 | 431 |
| 2021 | 62 | 605 |
| 2022 | 76 | 515 |
| 2023 | 109 | 375 |
| 2024 | 88 | 458 |
| 2025 | 86 | 448 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: حَسَن
- Armenian: Հասան
- Chinese: 哈桑
- Hindi: हसन
- Turkish: Hasan

## People named Hasan

- Hasan ibn Ali, 5th Rashidun Caliph (r. 661) and second Shia Imam
- Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian football player and executive
- Hasan al-Basri, Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher and judge (c.642–728)
- Hasan Prishtina, Albanian politician (1873-1933)
- Hasan Minhaj, American actor and comedian
- Hasan ibn Zayd, emir of Tabaristan
- Hasan Muratović, Bosnian politician, entrepreneur, and professor
- Hasan Aliyev, Azerbaijani wrestler
- Hasan as-Senussi, Crown Prince of Libya (1928-1992)
- Hasan Abdullayev, Azerbaijani nuclear physicist (1918–1993)
- Hasan Buzurg, 1st of several de facto independent Jalayirid rulers of Iraq and central Iran
- Hasan di Tiro, Aceh politician (1925-2010)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.