Hakan

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⭐ Famous Hakan

Hakan Çalhanoğlu

Turkish association football player (born 1994)

Choose Hakan and your child shares a first name with Hakan Çalhanoğlu, a Turkish association football player. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Hakan, like who?” Hakan Çalhanoğlu's Wikipedia article is available in 59 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 169,492 baby boys born in the US in 2025 was named Hakan, 10 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Hakan would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryHakan first shows up in US birth records in 1973, the first year at least 5 babies got it. It has been in use for 52 years since.
• 🏆Best yearIts best year was 1973, when it reached #4,054.
• 🍂TrendHakan has slipped 645 places over the last five years and now sits at #7,679. Good news if you want a familiar name that fewer kids will share.
• 💬MeaningIn Swedish, Hakan means “high-born son”. Our records link it to Native American and Scandinavian roots.

About the name Hakan

Hakan is a boy name of Native American and Scandinavian origin meaning “high-born son”. It has 5 letters and 2 syllables, starting with H and ending in “-kan”. US birth records list Hakan for boys from 1973 to 2025, in 40 of those 53 years. Its best year was 1973, when it ranked #4,054 among boy names. In 2025 it ranked #7,679, with 10 babies.

Origin:Native American namesScandinavian names