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Hasan vs Hassell

American parents have registered 5,398 Hasans since 1880, against 321 Hassells. Hasan is still ahead, with 184 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hasan Hassell

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 101 years in which either name was published, Hasan for 65 years and Hassell for 36 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Hasan Hassell
Total US births 5,398321
Most in one year 18416
Babies in 2025 184under 5
Estimated living today 5,30070
Median age today 1976
Peak year 20251918
Best rank 1,145th boys1,998th boys
Rank in 2025 1,145thunranked
First recorded 19581915
Girls / boys 0 / 5,3980 / 321

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 Hassells alive today are over 76; half the Hasans are over 19. That is 57 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 Hassell.