Hossain
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hossain 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.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 826(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye1 in 143as Hüseyin
- CYCyprus≈1 in 226as Hüseyin
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 Hossain 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)
- Sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 826 (inferred from the name graph)
571,822 named Hüseyin, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hüseyin in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus, Hussain in PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait 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)
different form of Husain.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hossain 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 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Hussain | 193 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 826 | 4.6K | Hossain | 219 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 646 | listed | ሁሴን | 27 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 536 | listed | Hussain | 167 |
| SY Syria | #19 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 430 | — | Hüseyin | 32 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 530 | — | Hussain | 113 |
| CY Cyprus | #6 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 226 | — | Hüseyin | 32 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hossain is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of Husain.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Qazi Motahar Hossainb. 1897BDBangladeshi writer and scientist (1897-1981)
- Kamal Hossainb. 1937BDBengali lawyer and politician (born 1937)
- Amjad Hossainb. 1942BDBangladeshi film director, actor, scriptwriter and lyricist
- Selina Hossainb. 1947BDBengali writer
- Muhammad Touhid Hossainb. 1955BDBangladeshi former foreign secretary and former high commissioner
- A F M Khalid Hossainb. 1956BDBangladeshi Islamic scholar
- Saima Wazedb. 1972BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi psychologist
- Sanwar Hossainb. 1973BDcricketer
- Enamul Hossainb. 1981BDBangladeshi chess player
- Mosaddek Hossain Saikatb. 1995BDBangladeshi cricketer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 does the name Hossain mean, and where does it come from?
- different form of Husain. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hossain have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 572 thousand people named Hüseyin, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hossain?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 571,822 people named Hüseyin in 2025, about 1 in 143 residents.
- How common is Hossain compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Hossain is the 8th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hossainThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hossain” — the 8th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.