Hassen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- HA-san
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Hassen is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “good, handsome”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Hassen mean?
Arabic: spelling of Hassan; usual spelling of Hasan
“good, handsome”
Most bearers honour Hasan ibn Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the second Shia imam.
Meaning borrowed from Hassan. More on Wiktionary.
Is Hassen a girl's or a boy's name?
Hassen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hassen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Hassen, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 1978.
Half of all the boys named Hassen in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 641 boys in the US were given Hassen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #477, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Hassen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,438 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,612 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,861 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,426 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,263 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,108 |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,898 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,194 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,453 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,780 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,311 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,353 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,769 |
Names like Hassen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza Zahir Muhammad Amir Ahmad Samir Zayd Abdullah Nasir Yazan Musa Zayan
Other spellings of Hassen
Names related to Hassen
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Kairo Safa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hassen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hassen, updated 20 October 2026.