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Hakan

#7,856 in 2025Boys' name

Emperor, ruler

Hakan has been given to 376 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,856 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Hakan, 2025

1 in 332,000

Hakan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hakan: meaning, origin, and history

Emperor, ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hakan means

Hakan means “emperor, ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hakan is used in Atayal and Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include 𐰴𐰍𐰣 and Kaan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Hakan is pronounced /haːˈkɑn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 376 boys were recorded with the name Hakan between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2017; its best national rank was #4,244 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,187 in 2020 to #7,856 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,681 in 2015 to #7,856 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hakan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,856
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hakan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hakan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hakans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hakan was born before 2009 — so the typical Hakan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
376
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Hakan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,115
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−669
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−175
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2017 (18)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,244
1973

Spellings of Hakan

Hakan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 64.1% against Hakan's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Hakan around the world

Where Hakan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1970–2025
    #2,740
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1984–1984
    #455
    in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hakan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,856
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 669
Best rank ever
#4,244
1973
Peak year
2017
18 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
376
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Hakan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HakopArkanHakimRakanNikanHakuHakamHakiemHakeemHakonHakeenAshkanLykanHakariVukanHakobFurkanHakeimHakiElkanBreckanRykanNickanLukan

Sibling names for Hakan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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