Hossâin

surname · Latin script

Hossâin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: different form of Husain. Hossâin is also written ሁሴን in Ethiopic, হোসেন in Bengali and חוסיין in Hebrew.

  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 8.5K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 79K

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 Hossâin 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)

571,822 named Hüseyin, 2025

#176 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
330 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Bangladesh, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Hossâin in other scripts: Latin, Ethiopic, Bengali and 5 more

(measured from records)
HüseyinHossâin in Latin(measured from records)
ሁሴንHossâin in Ethiopic(measured from records)
হোসেনHossâin in Bengali(measured from records)
חוסייןHossâin in Hebrew(measured from records)
ХусенHossâin in Cyrillic(measured from records)
ΧουσεινHossâin in Greek(measured from records)
ฮูเซ็นHossâin in Thai(measured from records)
ഹുസൈൻHossâin in Malayalam(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hussain in PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait, Hüseyin in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, Husain in IN India and Hossain in BD Bangladesh.

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)

different form of Husain.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hossâin 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.

Where Hossâin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#8571,822as Hüseyin1 in 143572KHüseyin154
ET Ethiopia—≈200,000 est.≈1 in 660listedሁሴን27
IN India—≈180,000 est.≈1 in 8K156KHusain217
BD Bangladesh—≈170,000 est.≈1 in 1K4.6KHossain219
PK Pakistan—≈140,000 est.≈1 in 1.7KlistedHussain193
SA Saudi Arabia—≈66,000 est.≈1 in 538listedHussain167
CY Cyprus#6≈10,000 est.≈1 in 134—Hüseyin32
KW Kuwait—≈9,900 est.≈1 in 495—Hussain113

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hossâin under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hossâin mean, and where does it come from?
different form of Husain. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Which countries have the most people named Hossâin?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 572 thousand people named Hüseyin, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Hossâin?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 571,822 people named Hüseyin in 2025, about 1 in 143 residents.
How common is Hossâin compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Hossâin is the 8th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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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, “Hossâin” — ranked 5th in Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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