Housam

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/haʊsəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Housam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Howsham .

rarermore common
  • SYSyria≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 25K
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 35K

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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Syria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Howsham .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world(measured from records)

Housam 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 Housam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria≈1,700 est.≈1 in 25KlistedHousam6
SY Syria≈1,300 est.≈1 in 14K—Housam18
MA Morocco≈850 est.≈1 in 42K—Housam21
EG Egypt≈570 est.≈1 in 184K—Housam32
SA Saudi Arabia≈280 est.≈1 in 122K—Housam29
LB Lebanon≈160 est.≈1 in 35K—Housam17
ES Spain641 in 781K65—7

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Houşam

36 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalمرحباً Housam،Hi Housam, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.

Reference works 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

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 Housam mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Howsham . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Housam?
A machine transcription gives /haʊsəm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Housam a male or female name?
Housam is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Housam have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Housam in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled housam.
How common is the name Housam?
In Spain, the national register counted 64 people named Housam, about 1 in 781 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Housam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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