Husnain
surname · Latin script
Meaning: good; excellent
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/həsneɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Husnain is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 249K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 406K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈53,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
good; excellent
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Husnain 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #161 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 1 | Husnain | 93 |
| CN China | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Husnain | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 93 | 1 in 538K | 186 | Husnain | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Husnain | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | 5 | Husnain | 86 |
| NO Norway | — | 22 | 1 in 249K | 106 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 9 | 1 in 652K | 16 | — | — |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 93 | #29,066 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 93 | #28,848 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #41,323 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #42,660 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #656 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Husnain mean, and where does it come from?
- good; excellent Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Husnain?
- A machine transcription gives /həsneɪn/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Husnain have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Husnain in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled husnain.
- How common is the name Husnain?
- In Spain, the national register counted 93 people named Husnain, about 1 in 538 thousand residents.
- How common is Husnain compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Husnain is the 161st most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/husnainThe 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, “Husnain” — the 161st most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.