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Hashim vs Hassie

American parents have registered 1,984 Hashims since 1880, against 1,565 Hassies. Hashim is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hashim Hassie

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 132 years in which either name was published, Hassie for 77 years and Hashim for 55 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Hashim Hassie
Total US births 1,9841,565
Most in one year 9054
Babies in 2025 767
Estimated living today 1,900150
Median age today 1476
Peak year 20161919
Best rank 1,724th boys967th girls
Rank in 2025 1,992nd11,932nd
First recorded 19711880
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9841,555 / 10

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 Hassies alive today are over 76; half the Hashims are over 14. That is 62 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 Hassie.