Hassan

31,210 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hassan in the 2020 census, making it the 1,107th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,577.

By the numbers

People: 31,210
Rank: 1,107th
How common: 1 in 9,577
Per 100,000: 10.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

From Arabic حَسَّان (“doer of good”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hassan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 43.5%
White, not Hispanic 30.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 19.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hassan

Samia Suluhu Hassan (born 1960)President of Tanzania since 2021
Sifan Hassan (born 1993)Ethiopian-born Dutch middle- and long-distance runner
Maggie Hassan (born 1958)American politician
Uzun Hassan (1423–1478)greatest shah of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu dynasty (r. 1453–1478)
Hossam Hassan (born 1966)Egyptian association football player and coach
Ahmed Hassan (born 1975)Egyptian association football player.
Abdelkarim Hassan (born 1993)Qatari footballer
Rima Hassan (born 1992)French–Palestinian politician and legal scholar, French MEP

People named Hassan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hassan

Also a first name

Hassan has been given to 12,307 American babies as a first name since 1923, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.