Hassan (given name)

Pronunciation	Arabic: [ˈħasan]
Gender	Male
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	handsome, good, benefactor
Variant form(s)	al-Ḥasan
Related names	Ḥassān Hussein Alassane Lassana

Hassan (also spelled Hasan, Hassane, Hassen, Hasson, Hassin, Hassine, Hacen, Hasen, Hasin, Hassa, Hassann, Hasa, Hasso, Cassin, Chassan, Chasan, Khassan, Khasan, Cassan, Casan, Hasaan, Alassane, Lassana, Lacène, or Lansenou) (Arabic: حسن‎‎, Ḥasan) is a masculine Arabic given name.

As a surname, Hassan may be Irish, Scottish, Arabic or Hebrew (see Hassan (surname)).

The name Hassan in Arabic means 'handsome' or 'good', or 'benefactor'.

There are two different Arabic names that are both romanized with the spelling "Hassan". However, they are pronounced differently, and in Arabic script spelled differently.

In the romanized spelling Hassan, it is not possible to distinguish which of the two names is intended. The ambiguity can be removed by romanizing the former name as Hassan with a single a, and reserving the spelling with doubled a for the latter name, or romanizing the former as Hasan and the latter as Hassan.

King al-Ḥasan of Morocco (officially romanized as Hassan, with a double ss, due to the influence of French orthography) is an example of the former. The early Islamic poet Ḥassān ibn Thābit is an example of the latter. In the original Arabic, the two different names are easily distinguished.

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