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Hasaan vs Haskell

American parents have registered 3,710 Haskells since 1880, against 613 Hasaans. But in 2025 it was Hasaan that was commoner, 7 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hasaan against Haskell, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hasaan Haskell

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 136 years in which either name was published, Haskell for 97 years and Hasaan for 39 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Hasaan Haskell
Total US births 6133,710
Most in one year 26104
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 600980
Median age today 2566
Peak year 19971919
Best rank 2,903rd boys587th boys
Rank in 2025 9,714thunranked
First recorded 19711883
Girls / boys 0 / 61310 / 3,700

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 Haskells alive today are over 66; half the Hasaans are over 25. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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