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Hashim vs Haskel

American parents have registered 1,984 Hashims since 1880, against 1,160 Haskels. Hashim is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hashim against Haskel, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hashim Haskel

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 116 years in which either name was published, Haskel for 61 years and Hashim for 55 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Hashim Haskel
Total US births 1,9841,160
Most in one year 9040
Babies in 2025 76under 5
Estimated living today 1,900270
Median age today 1472
Peak year 20161924
Best rank 1,724th boys1,133rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,992ndunranked
First recorded 19711907
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9840 / 1,160

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 Hashims are over 14. That is 58 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: Hashim and Haskel.