# Hassan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hassan/  
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 | “doer of good” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Hassaan |
| US babies named this | 12,307 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 12,300 / 7 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6,173, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic حَسَّان (ḥassān, “doer of good”).

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 7 | 7,920 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 243 | 867 |
| 2012 | 246 | 857 |
| 2013 | 262 | 825 |
| 2014 | 309 | 760 |
| 2015 | 318 | 757 |
| 2016 | 299 | 792 |
| 2017 | 340 | 716 |
| 2018 | 306 | 766 |
| 2019 | 317 | 753 |
| 2020 | 282 | 817 |
| 2021 | 312 | 789 |
| 2022 | 325 | 777 |
| 2023 | 390 | 688 |
| 2024 | 427 | 649 |
| 2025 | 447 | 626 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 249 | 208 |
| 2012 | 200 | 244 |
| 2013 | 201 | 248 |
| 2014 | 180 | 269 |
| 2015 | 195 | 262 |
| 2016 | 205 | 256 |
| 2017 | 187 | 278 |
| 2018 | 197 | 259 |
| 2019 | 176 | 274 |
| 2020 | 159 | 288 |
| 2021 | 153 | 305 |
| 2022 | 151 | 298 |
| 2023 | 154 | 293 |
| 2024 | 180 | 260 |
| 2025 | 191 | 247 |

## People named Hassan

- Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949)
- Hassan ibn Thabit, Arabian poet and companion of Muhammad
- Hassan Fathi, Egyptian architect (1900–1989)
- Hassan Yebda, Algerian-French footballer (born 1984)
- Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player (born 1989)
- Ahmed Hassan Mahgoub, Egyptian association football player
- Hassan Shehata, Egyptian association football manager (born 1949)
- Hassan Ali Mansur, former Iranian Prime Minister (1923-1965)
- Hassan Abshir Farah, former Prime Minister of Somalia (died: 2020)
- Hassan El-Shazly, Egyptian association football player (1943–2015)
- Hassan Ragab, Egyptian footballer (1909-1973)
- Hassan El-Far, Egyptian footballer (1912-1973)

## 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.