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Hasaan vs Hashim

American parents have registered 1,984 Hashims since 1880, against 613 Hasaans. Hashim is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hasaan against Hashim, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hasaan Hashim

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 55 years in which either name was published, Hashim for 53 years and Hasaan for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Hasaan Hashim
Total US births 6131,984
Most in one year 2690
Babies in 2025 776
Estimated living today 6001,900
Median age today 2514
Peak year 19972016
Best rank 2,903rd boys1,724th boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th1,992nd
First recorded 19711971
Girls / boys 0 / 6130 / 1,984

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hasaans alive today are over 25; half the Hashims are over 14. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Hasaan Hashim
England and Wales 812,349

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hasaan and Hashim.