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Hosam

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Husam

Hosam has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Hosam, 2014

1 in 741,000

Hosam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hosam: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Husam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hosam means

Hosam is a alternate transcription of Husam.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hosam is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ħu.ˈsaːm/ for Hosam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hosam → Husam. The family’s meaning is “sword”, recorded in the naming reference for Husam.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Husam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Hosam between 1973 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,403 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Hosam?

Hosam had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hosam sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hosam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hosams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hosam was born before 1994 — so the typical Hosam is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Hosam rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (8)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,403
1973

Spellings of Hosam

Hosam is not the most common spelling — Sam is, with 78.0% against Hosam's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Hosam around the world

Where Hosam ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hosam by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,403
1973
Peak year
1994
8 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hosam

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hosam

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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