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Hasani vs Hassel

American parents have registered 1,195 Hasanis since 1880, against 512 Hassels. Hasani is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hasani against Hassel, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hasani 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 98 years in which either name was published, Hasani for 53 years and Hassel for 45 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Hasani Hassel
Total US births 1,195512
Most in one year 6727
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 1,200100
Median age today 2475
Peak year 19771925
Best rank 1,054th boys1,425th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19731914
Girls / boys 11 / 1,1840 / 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 Hasanis are over 24. That is 51 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 Hassel.