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Haskel vs Hassan

American parents have registered 12,307 Hassans since 1880, against 1,160 Haskels. Hassan is still ahead, with 447 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haskel against Hassan, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haskel Hassan

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 118 years in which either name was published, Hassan for 66 years and Haskel for 52 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Haskel Hassan
Total US births 1,16012,307
Most in one year 40447
Babies in 2025 under 5447
Estimated living today 27012,000
Median age today 7219
Peak year 19242025
Best rank 1,133rd boys625th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked625th
First recorded 19071923
Girls / boys 0 / 1,1607 / 12,300

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 Haskels alive today are over 72; half the Hassans are over 19. That is 53 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: Haskel and Hassan.