Husain
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɐsejn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Husain 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.
- TRTürkiye1 in 143as Hüseyin(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 226as Hüseyin
- SYSyria≈1 in 430as 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 Husain 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 143 (inferred from the name graph)
571,822 named Hüseyin, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, as Hüseyin
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, 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)
From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Husain 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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; 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)
Husain 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.
Hermoso, guapo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Tabarak Husainb. 1924BDBangladeshi diplomat (1924-2018)
- Javid Husainb. 1944PKPakistani diplomat
- Tariq Husainb. 1958botanist
- Mishal Husainb. 1973GBBritish journalist and news presenter
- Sara Kelly-Husainb. 1980IEIrish-Pakistani actress
- Ahmed Husainb. 1999BHBahraini handball player
- Tasneem Zehra Husainb. 2000PKPakistani physicist
- Dishad Husainfilm director
- Masud HusainGBCognitive neurologist at the University of Oxford
- Amin HusainUSAmerican activist and professor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
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
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Husain mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Husain?
- A machine transcription gives /hɐsejn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What are other forms of the name Husain?
- In the etymology graph, Hussain, Alhassan and Husein are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Husain 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 is Husain most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Husain itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Türkiye's: the national register counts about 1 in 143 people named Hüseyin.
- How common is the name Husain?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 571,822 people named Hüseyin in 2025, about 1 in 143 residents.
- How common is Husain compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Husain 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/husainThe 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, “Husain” — the 8th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.