Hassan

Where Hassan comes from

From Arabic حَسَّان (ḥassān, “doer of good”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Hassan
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1923
    First appearance
    #4,239 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Hassan II born
    King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999
  3. 1948
    Hassan Rouhani born
    President of Iran from 2013 to 2021
  4. 2025
    Peak, #625
    447 babies named Hassan — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Hassan Rouhani · President of Iran from 2013 to 2021, born 1948
  • Hassan II · King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999, 1929–1999
  • Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Somali removal of president, born 1955
  • Hassan al-Banna · Egyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949), 1906–1949
  • Hassan Gouled Aptidon · President of Djibouti, 1916–2006

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.