Hussam
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/həsəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hussam is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 886(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 2.3K
- SYSyria≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 886 (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hussam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | #300 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Hussam | 35 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #381 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Hussam | 136 |
| JO Jordan | #367 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 886 | — | Hussam | 94 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Hussam | 95 |
| SY Syria | #314 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Hussam | 59 |
| US United States | — | 915 | 1 in 364K | 915 | Hussam | 213 |
| KW Kuwait | #856 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Hussam | 43 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the wgnd-eg-names register. 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)- Hussam Almallakb. 1946FRFrench politician
- Hussam al-Masrib. 1976PSPalestinian cameraman and contract photojournalist
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)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)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 915 | #13,266 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Hussam?
- A machine transcription gives /həsəm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Hussam a male or female name?
- Hussam is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik).
- In which country does Hussam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Hussam in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hussam.
- How common is the name Hussam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 915 people named Hussam in 2020, about 1 in 364 thousand residents.
- How common is Hussam compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, Hussam is the 300th most common given name of 4,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hussam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hussamThe 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, “Hussam” — the 300th most common given name in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.