Hakan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Håkan in ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hakan is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name73K records spelled Hakan40 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Sweden, Türkiye, United States

  Languages: German, Swedish, English

  Also written Håkan, Haakan, H'Akan, Ha-Kan, 'Hakan

• French given name28K records spelled Hakan16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Türkiye, United States, Sweden

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Håkan, H'Akan, Hakán, Hakañ, Häkan

• Finnish given name12K records spelled Hakan4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Türkiye, Sweden, Hungary

  Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

  Also written Håkan

• Chinese given name5.8K records spelled Hakan5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden

  Languages: Chinese, Burmese

  Also written Håkan, H'Akan

• Russian given name5.4K records spelled Hakan41 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Bulgarian

  Also written Хакан, Khakan, Håkan, Хокан, Гокан

• Arabic given name5.2K records spelled Hakan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Saudi Arabia, Syria

  Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

  Also written הקאן, Håkan

• a separate given name3.4K records spelled Hakan6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Türkiye, United States, India

  Also written Håkan, Häkan, Hákan, Hȧkan, Hâkan

• Vietnamese given name2.0K records spelled Hakan3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Sweden, Vietnam, Netherlands

  Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

  Also written Håkan

• Indonesian given name1.4K records spelled Hakan3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Indonesia, Sweden, United States

  Also written Håkan, H'Akan

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hakan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Turkish, 1. Türk, Moğol ve Tatar hanları için "hükümdarlar hükümdarı" anlamında kullanılan bir unvan.2. Osmanlı padişahlarına verilen unvan.

  as a word·TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

• In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (türk, hakan »Herrscher«).

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Icelandic, definite nominative singular of haka

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, definite singular of haka

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Sundanese, to eat

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Hakan Karahanb. 1960TRTurkish actor (born 1960)
• Hakan Fidanb. 1968TRMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey
• Hakan Şükürb. 1971TRTurkish association football player (born 1971)
• Hakan Ünsalb. 1973TRTurkish association football player (born 1973)
• Killa Hakanb. 1973TRTurkish rapper (born 1973)
• Hakan Yakınb. 1977CHTurkish-Swiss association football player (born 1977)
• Hakan Baltab. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
• Hakan Çalhanoğlub. 1994DETurkish association football player (born 1994)
• Mert Hakan Yandaşb. 1994TRTurkish association football player (born 1994)
• Hakan Reçberb. 1999TRTurkish taekwondo athlete (born 1999)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 294 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hakan?

We estimate roughly 277 thousand people bear Hakan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Hakan have the most bearers?

We estimate about 220 thousand people bear Hakan in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hakan.

Where is Hakan most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hakan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 201 people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.

How common is Hakan compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Hakan is the 61st most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Hakan a male or female name?

Hakan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Hakan mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name; means Turkish ruler