Hosein
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Husain
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Hosein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Trinidad & Tobago than in any other country.
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 850few records(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 14K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 21Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Trinidad & Tobago (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 847 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Trinidad & Tobago, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of Husain.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hosein 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #279 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 847 | 7K | Hosein | 50 |
| US United States | — | 1,078 | 1 in 309K | 1.6K | Hosein | 258 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Hosein | 110 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 741K | — | Hosein | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Hosein | 90 |
| JM Jamaica | #805 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Hosein | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 53 | 1 in 14K | 53 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 52 | 1 in 105K | 72 | — | 9 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; This page details common surnames in Trinidad and Tobago, highlighting their cultural diversity and historical significa; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Imran Nazar Hoseinb. 1942TTIslamic scholar
- Gry Ødegaarden Hoseinb. 1972NOhomicide victim, 2001-01-13
- Shazad Mustapha HoseinGBresearcher
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)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 895 | #25,825 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 53 | #572 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #25,478 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
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 Hosein mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Husain. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hosein have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Hosein in Trinidad & Tobago, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hosein.
- How common is the name Hosein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,078 people named Hosein in 2010, about 1 in 309 thousand residents.
- How common is Hosein compared with other names?
- In Trinidad & Tobago, Hosein is the 279th most common surname of 9,501 surnames 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/hoseinThe 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, “Hosein” — the 279th most common surname in Trinidad & Tobago. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.