Hüseyin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Küçük sevgili
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: TÜİK NIP, 2025
/hys̪ejin̪/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Hüseyin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 130(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye1 in 143
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hüseyin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #176 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)
571,822 people, 2025
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hussain in PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait, Husain in IN India, Hossain in BD Bangladesh and ሁሴን in ET Ethiopia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Küçük sevgili.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hüseyin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #8 | 571,822 | 1 in 143 | 572K | Hüseyin | 154 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 660 | listed | ሁሴን | 27 |
| IN India | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 156K | Husain | 217 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 4.6K | Hossain | 219 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Hussain | 193 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 538 | listed | Hussain | 167 |
| CY Cyprus | #6 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 134 | — | Hüseyin | 32 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 495 | — | Hussain | 113 |
571,822 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Bangladeshi name database containing surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency.. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Husayn Bayqarahb. 1438AFnot in their usual nameTimurid monarch
- Rauf Orbayb. 1881TRnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Turkey (1881–1964)
- Burhan Belgeb. 1899TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1899–1967)
- Nihal Atsızb. 1905TRnot in their usual nameTurkish poet and writer (1905–1975)
- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallahb. 1935LBnot in their usual nameLebanese cleric (1935–2010)
- Ali Nesinb. 1957TRnot in their usual nameTurkish mathematician (born 1957)
- Hussein al-Sheikhb. 1960PSnot in their usual nameVice President of Palestinian Authority
- Hüseyin Özgürgünb. 1965TRPrime Minister of Northern Cyprus (born 1965)
- Hussain Zaidib. 1968INnot in their usual nameIndian writer (b. 1968)
- Hüseyin Özkanb. 1972TRTurkish judoka (born 1972)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2018 | 611K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2019 | 608K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2020 | 602K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2021 | 596K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2022 | 590K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2023 | 584K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2024 | 578K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 572K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2021 | — | #37 |
| TR Türkiye | Bloothooft (2022) — Given names in three generations of Turkish migrants | — | — | #6 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Hüseyin?
- In the etymology graph, Hussein, Hossein and Husayn are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Hasan.
- How do you pronounce Hüseyin?
- In Turkish /hys̪ejin̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Hüseyin a male or female name?
- Hüseyin is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), among others.
- What does the name Hüseyin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Küçük sevgili.
- In which country does Hüseyin have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 572 thousand people named Hüseyin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hüseyin.
- How common is the name Hüseyin?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 571,822 people named Hüseyin in 2025, about 1 in 143 residents.
- How common is Hüseyin compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Hüseyin is the 8th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%BCseyinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hüseyin” — the 8th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.