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Hasan vs Hassel

American parents have registered 5,398 Hasans since 1880, against 512 Hassels. Hasan is still ahead, with 184 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hasan against Hassel, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hasan Hassel

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 107 years in which either name was published, Hasan for 63 years and Hassel for 44 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Hasan Hassel
Total US births 5,398512
Most in one year 18427
Babies in 2025 184under 5
Estimated living today 5,300100
Median age today 1975
Peak year 20251925
Best rank 1,145th boys1,425th boys
Rank in 2025 1,145thunranked
First recorded 19581914
Girls / boys 0 / 5,3980 / 512

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 Hassels alive today are over 75; half the Hasans are over 19. That is 56 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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