Lassana
Lassana is a given name or surname that is an alternative transliteration of Al-Hassan, and may refer to:Lassana Bathily, hero of the Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis Lassana Camará, Bissau-Guinean footballer Lassana Cassamá, Bissau-Guinean football manager Lassana Cisse, murder victim Lassana Coulibaly, Malian footballer Lassana Coulibaly (criminal), French serial rapist Lassana Diakhaby,…
- Western African
Meaning & Origin of Lassana
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Lassana is a given name or surname that is an alternative transliteration of Al-Hassan, and may refer to:Lassana Bathily, hero of the Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis Lassana Camará, Bissau-Guinean footballer Lassana Cassamá, Bissau-Guinean football manager Lassana Cisse, murder victim Lassana Coulibaly, Malian footballer Lassana Coulibaly (criminal), French serial rapist Lassana Diakhaby,…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Western African
The Story of Lassana
Lassana first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 2011, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2011: 7 births, good for #9,599 nationwide. About 81% of every Lassana on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Lassana last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 31 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2010s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Lassana
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About the name Lassana
Lassana is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2011 and has accumulated 31 births in the dataset. Lassana's peak popularity came in 2011 when it ranked #9,599. Use the chart and map above to compare Lassana's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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