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Hasani vs Hashim

American parents have registered 1,984 Hashims since 1880, against 1,195 Hasanis. Hashim is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hasani 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 42 years and Hasani for 13 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Hasani Hashim
Total US births 1,1951,984
Most in one year 6790
Babies in 2025 2576
Estimated living today 1,2001,900
Median age today 2414
Peak year 19772016
Best rank 1,054th boys1,724th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th1,992nd
First recorded 19731971
Girls / boys 11 / 1,1840 / 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 Hasanis alive today are over 24; half the Hashims are over 14. That is 10 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: Hasani and Hashim.