Hoseini

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hoseini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IRIran≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 3.3K
  • NONorway1 in 50K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hoseini 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.

Where Hoseini is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AF Afghanistan#321≈11,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Hoseini15
IR Iran—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 31K—Hoseini56
DE Germany—≈260 est.≈1 in 307K—Hoseini35
SE Sweden—1851 in 55K185Hoseini22
AT Austria—≈170 est.≈1 in 53K—Hoseini15
NO Norway—1101 in 50K110Hoseini10
FI Finland—1041 in 54K104Hoseini5

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hoseini is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Iran

    Also written Hoseïni

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Mansooreh Hosseini, b. 1926Aga Khan IV, b. 1936Khaled Hosseini, b. 1965Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, b. 1969Kambiz Hosseini, b. 1975Mehdi Hosseini, b. 1979Hossein Hosseini, b. 1992Roshana Hosseini, b. 1993Fereshteh Hosseini, b. 1997Kimiya Hosseini, b. 2003

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 9 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Hoseini
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—185#4,456
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—110#14,108
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—104#12,370
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—38—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

In which country does Hoseini have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Hoseini in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoseini.
How common is the name Hoseini?
In Sweden, the national register counted 185 people named Hoseini, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
How common is Hoseini compared with other names?
In Afghanistan, Hoseini is the 321st most common surname of 11,723 surnames 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, “Hoseini” — the 321st most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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