Hussain
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hussain 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’.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 530(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 536
- PKPakistan≈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 Hussain 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 530 (inferred from the name graph)
571,822 named Hüseyin, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hüseyin in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus, 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 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hussain 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 |
| 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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hussain is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, diminutive of Hasan, ‘little handsome’; name of Husayn, grandson of the Prophet.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In English, A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Husayn.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, good
as a nameAfrican Muslim 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)
- Anwar Hussainb. 1925INIndian film actor
- Nasir Hussainb. 1931INIndian film director (1931–2002)
- Mamnoon Hussainb. 1940PK12th president of Pakistan from 2013 to 2018
- Ishrat Hussainb. 1941PKPakistani banker
- Adil Hussainb. 1963INIndian actor of Iraqi origin
- Aamir Khanb. 1965INnot in their usual nameIndian actor
- Karim Hussainb. 1974CACanadian screenwriter
- Netha Hussainb. 1990INIndian physician, researcher and Wikimedian
- Junaid Hussainb. 1994GBISIL propagandist and hacker
- Warina Hussainb. 1999AFAfghan actress and model
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 83 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.5K | #828 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.5K | #828 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 415 | #5,193 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 325 | #2,874 |
Reference works 10
- 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)
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hussain 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].
- What are other forms of the name Hussain?
- In the etymology graph, Husain, Alhassan and Husein are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hussain 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 Hussain?
- In Spain, the national register counted 415 people named Hussain, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
- How common is Hussain compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Hussain is the 8th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hussain?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hussainThe same 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), 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, “Hussain” — the 8th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.