Hussey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Houssaye in northern France (‘stand of holly trees’), or from a nickname for a female householder/unusual boots, or from Irish Gaelic O hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hussey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 19K
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, 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)
- Houssayein(measured from records)
- Irish GaelicO(measured from records)
From Houssaye in northern France (‘stand of holly trees’), or from a nickname for a female householder/unusual boots, or from Irish Gaelic O hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hussey 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Hussey | 5 |
| US United States | — | 9,176 | 1 in 36K | 9.2K | Hussey | 383 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hussey | 173 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Hussey | 150 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | Hussey | 141 |
| IE Ireland | #882 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Hussey | 79 |
| JM Jamaica | #816 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hussey | 10 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Hussey is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OFr hosed/Lat hosatus ‘booted’; also from ME hus(e)wyf ‘mistress of a family’; first attested Walter Hosed, Hosatus 1086 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
nickname for a woman who was mistress of her own household, from Middle English husewif (a compound of Old English hiis ‘house’ + wiif‘woman’). It was not until the 17th century that this word acquired pejorative connotations.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Houssaye in SeineMaritime, so called from a collective noun from Old French hous ‘holly’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus'; this was the name of a bardic family associated with the Maguires of Fermanagh, also Anglicized as Oswell, Oswald.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A habitational surname from Norman.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivianb. 1775GBBritish cavalry officer (1775–1842)
- William Husseyb. 1862USAmerican astronomer
- Leonard Husseyb. 1891GBBritish explorer (1891–1964)
- Frank Husseyb. 1905USathletics competitor (1905-1974)
- Ruth Husseyb. 1911USAmerican actress (1911–2005)
- Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradleyb. 1923GBBritish businessman (1923-2006)
- Olivia Husseyb. 1951ARBritish actress (1951–2024)
- Wayne Husseyb. 1958GBEnglish musician, singer of The Mission
- Andrew Husseyb. 1963GBBritish cultural historian and biographer
- Michael Husseyb. 1975AUcricketer
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.2K | #3,867 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.1K | #3,584 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.8K | #3,908 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Hussey mean, and where does it come from?
- From Houssaye in northern France (‘stand of holly trees’), or from a nickname for a female householder/unusual boots, or from Irish Gaelic O hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hussey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Hussey in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hussey.
- How common is the name Hussey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,176 people named Hussey in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Hussey compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Hussey is the 816th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/husseyThe 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, “Hussey” — the 816th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.