Hussâin
surname · Latin script
Hussâin 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: From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’. Hussâin is also written ሁሴን in Ethiopic, হোসেন in Bengali and חוסיין in Hebrew.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 500(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 540
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.2K
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 Hussâin 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 495 (inferred from the name graph)
571,822 named Hüseyin, 2025
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Hussâin in other scripts: Latin, Ethiopic, Bengali and 5 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hussain in PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait and 1 more, 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)From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hussâin 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 | 571,822as Hüseyin | 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 |
| ES Spain | — | 415 | 1 in 121K | 6.5K | Hussain | 57 |
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.; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hussâin mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Hussâin?
- 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 Hussâin?
- In Spain, the national register counted 415 people named Hussâin, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
- How common is Hussâin compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Hussâin 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, “Hussâin” — ranked 5th in Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.