Though generally known as "Hafsa Sultan", she is sometimes incidentally referred to as "Ayşe Hafsa Sultan" by some authors, without indication of the origin of this name. Name "Hafsa" referred to Muhammad's wive Hafsa (حفصة) daughter of Umar ibn Al Kattab.
Pietro Bragadin, Venetian Republic's ambassador in the early years of Suleiman the Magnificent's reign notes "a very beautiful woman of 48, for whom the sultan bears great reverence and love..." Leslie Peirce. The Imperial Harem : Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire p. 62 ISBN0-19-508677-5. Oxford University Press. 1993.
Emecen, Feridun. İslâm Ansiklopedisi 38. İslâm Araştırmaları Merkezi: 62–74. 2010. Information indicating that she was the daughter of the Crimean Khan or was related to the family of Dulkadıroğlu is incorrect.|chapter=被忽略 (幫助)