Hassan

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hassan is a surname, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 11th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (i) from a Muslim personal name derived from Arabic hassan 'beautifier'; (ii) see Hasan.

rarermore common
  • YEYemen1 in 25◐
  • BDBangladesh1 in 56
  • MYMalaysia1 in 163

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈99K ●

across 6 countries

#164 ●

of 21M surnames

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
375 ●

9.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.9K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

HasanLatin · Bangla●3.7M records
ХасанCyrillic · Uzbek●99K records
হাসানBengali · Bangla●9.1K records
ฮาซันThai · Thai●5.1K records
ᲰასანGeorgian · Georgian●634 records
사원Hangul · Korean●220 records
ΧασάνGreek · Greek●28 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hasan in BD Bangladesh, IN India, TR Türkiye and 3 more, Хасан in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan and 2 more, Hasani in IR Iran, TZ Tanzania and Hutson in US United States.

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●

(i) from a Muslim personal name derived from Arabic hassan 'beautifier'; (ii) see Hasan

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hassan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#114,627,069110K rec.—listedHasan193
MY Malaysia#4338,203153K rec.——Hassan102
EG Egypt#2224,782132K rec.—listedHassan207
PK Pakistan#30216,59531K rec.—1Hassan132
RU Russia—139,443113K rec.—#148Хасан126
NG Nigeria#5134,711193K rec.—listedHassan111
YE Yemen#1101,2232.7K rec.——Hassan57
ID Indonesia#5472,74415K rec.—listedHasan193
IN India#17670,737486K rec.1 in 19K71KHasan155
TR Türkiye#43466,8366.9M rec.—531KHasan173
SY Syria#1053,089159K rec.——Hasan57
GB United Kingdom#47543,04150K rec.—listedHassan176

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English833K28%
  • Bangla620K21%
  • Arabic495K17%
  • Swahili241K8%
  • Urdu187K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English833,45328%
Bangla620,09621%
Arabic495,11117%
Swahili241,2588%
Urdu186,9306%

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◐

Hassan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname92K records spelled Hassan8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Morocco

    Also written Ḥassăn, Hassán, Hassân, Ḥassan, Ḥaṣṣān

  • Malayalam surname3.9K records spelled Hassan18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Hassam, ഹുസ്സൻ, ஹஸனீ, ഹസ്സൻ, ஹஸன்

77 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●

Hassan 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 Arabic, ‘handsome, good’; also the name of Ḥasan, grandson of the Prophet.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In French, Arabic name meaning “handsome, good, beautiful”.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Arabic name meaning 'handsome' or 'good'.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • from a personal name based on Arabic hassan ‘beautifier’. The poet Hassan bin Sabit was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hOsain ‘descendant of Osdn', a personal name formed from a diminutive of os ‘deer’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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●

010203040196019802000202039 · 1984

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Hassan in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
19454
19484
19496
19504
19517
19525
19537
19546
19557
195613
19577
195815
19595
196016
196113
196223
196320
196422
196520
196619
196717
196830
196919
197024
197118
197220
197317
197419
197518
197622
197718
197825
197923
198024
198120
198233
198325
198439
198530
198633
198732
198829
198928
199025
199129
199226
199326
199428
199533
199626
199731
199822
199929
200024
200125
200227
200327
200418
200518
200618
200727
200825
200915
201021
201120
201214
201318
201419
201515
20168
201713
201819
201915
20207
20218
20224
202314
202414
20258

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 79 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Uzun Hassan, b. 1423Maggie Hassan, b. 1958Samia Suluhu Hassan, b. 1960Hossam Hassan, b. 1966Tamer Hassan, b. 1968Karen Hassan, b. 1981Rima Hassan, b. 1992Sifan Hassan, b. 1993Abdelkarim Hassan, b. 1993Trézéguet, b. 1994

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●

Attested in 136 sources across 71 countries.

Official registers attesting Hassan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202031K#1,107
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201022K#1,652
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202018K#1,678
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200012K#2,762
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12K#346
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—10K#526
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—9.1K#272
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—7K#107
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20245.8K#333
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4.7K#664
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20204.4K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20253.5K—

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 given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 990 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hassan?
We estimate roughly 99 thousand people bear Hassan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Hassan have the most bearers?
Hassan is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled hasan.
How common is Hassan compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Hassan is the 11th most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Hassan mean?
Recorded meaning: (i) from a Muslim personal name derived from Arabic hassan 'beautifier'; (ii) see Hasan
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Hassan” — the 11th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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