Husseïn

loc · Latin script

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

Husseïn is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Arabic حُسَيْن (ḥusayn).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 4.8K
  • DKDenmark1 in 6.2K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

9,440 people

Sources
217 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hussein in US United States.

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)

Transliteration of Arabic حُسَيْن (ḥusayn).

Sources 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Husseïn 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 Husseïn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden9,4401 in 1.1K9.4K—12
US United States7,1901 in 46K14KHussein44
FI Finland1,1711 in 4.8K1.6K—6
DK Denmark9531 in 6.2K1.9K——
NO Norway8501 in 6.4K4.2K—4
IS Iceland151 in 23K15——

9,440 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

1700180019002000Hussein Khodja, b. 1750Hussein ibn Nasser, b. 1902Hussein Moukhtar, b. 1905Syed Hussein Alatas, b. 1924Hussein Arab, b. 1947Hussein al-Sheikh, b. 1960Hussain Zaidi, b. 1968Hossein Shahbazi, b. 1996Hussein Khairan, b. 2000

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Husseïn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Husseïn mean, and where does it come from?
Transliteration of Arabic حُسَيْن (ḥusayn). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
In which country does Husseïn have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Husseïn, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Husseïn most common?
Husseïn is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Husseïn?
In Sweden, the national register counted 9,440 people named Husseïn, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/husse%C3%AFn

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, “Husseïn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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