Given name & surname · also Norse
Hakan
“one who is noble”·“a fiery man”
Hakan is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “one who is noble” and “a fiery man”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “one who is noble” and “a fiery man”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Native American.
How it developed
From Persian خاقان (xâqân), from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hakan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 376
- 376 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,860 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +3%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,860 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 3.3% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,043 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hakan’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Hakan shares a linguistic root with KAAN. In Turkish usage, Hakan has a related form in 𐰴𐰍𐰣. Hakan has a feminine form in Hakana.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hakan
- Hakan ŞükürTurkish association football player (born 1971)
- Hakan ÇalhanoğluTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Hakan YakinTurkish-Swiss association football player (born 1977)
- Hakan BaltaTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Hakan FidanMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkeyborn 1968
- Hakan ÜnsalTurkish association football player (born 1973)
- Hakan ReçberTurkish taekwondo athlete (born 1999)
- Hakan GündayTurkish writer (born 1976)
- Hakan ArıkanTurkish association football player (born 1982)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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