Hosseini
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from an Arabic surname indicating descent from or association with Husain
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hoʊseɪˈini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hosseini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 303(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 4.2K
- IRIran≈1 in 14K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 303 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 an Arabic surname indicating descent from or association with Husain.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hosseini 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #23 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 303 | 2 | Hosseini | 22 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hosseini | 99 |
| SE Sweden | #197 | 2,439 | 1 in 4.2K | 2.4K | Hosseini | 59 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Hosseini | 118 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Hosseini | 28 |
| NO Norway | — | 926 | 1 in 5.9K | 926 | Hosseini | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 747 | 1 in 11K | 747 | Hosseini | 21 |
| FI Finland | — | 516 | 1 in 11K | 516 | Hosseini | 15 |
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); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadarib. 1906IRnot in their usual nameIranian Grand Ayatollah (1906-1986)
- Ali Sistanib. 1930IRnot in their usual nameIranian cleric
- Aga Khan IVb. 1936CHnot in their usual name49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism Muslims
- Hussein el-Husseinib. 1937LBnot in their usual nameLebanese politician (1937–2023)
- Moussa Arafatb. 1940PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician (1940-2005)
- Khaled Hosseinib. 1965USAfghan novelist
- Shahab Hosseinib. 1974IRIranian actor
- Jalal Hosseinib. 1982IRIranian association football player
- Hossein Hosseinib. 1992IRIranian footballer (born 1992)
- Kimiya Hosseinib. 2003IRIranian actress
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Hosseini mean, and where does it come from?
- from an Arabic surname indicating descent from or association with Husain. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hosseini?
- A machine transcription gives /hoʊseɪˈini/ (IPA) for Persian.
- In which country does Hosseini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Hosseini in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hosseini.
- How common is the name Hosseini?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2,439 people named Hosseini, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Hosseini compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Hosseini is the 23rd most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hosseini?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hosseiniThe 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, “Hosseini” — the 23rd most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.