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Hossam

#10,063 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Husam

Hossam has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #10,063 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Hossam, 2025

1 in 474,000

Hossam 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hossam: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Husam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hossam means

Hossam is a alternate transcription of Husam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hossam → 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, 69 boys were recorded with the name Hossam between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2013; its best national rank was #10,046 in 2013.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,794 in 2015 to #10,063 in 2025.

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 Hossam?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,063
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hossam 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hossam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hossams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hossam was born before 2016 — so the typical Hossam is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
65.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
69
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2010s — 65.2% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Hossam 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
+2,731
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2013 (7)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,046
2013

Spellings of Hossam

Hossam is not the most common spelling — Hassan is, with 63.5% against Hossam's 0.36%.

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.

Hossam around the world

Where Hossam 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
    1996–2023
    #3,524
    in 2023
  • France
    1986–2025
    #3,977
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hossam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,063
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,046
2013
Peak year
2013
7 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Hossam

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

HosamHoskieHossHassamHosteenHosseinWissamHussamEssamArsamHosiaIssamBassamWisamWessamHossainWesamHoseyHusamHostonHoscarEsamIsamHose

Sibling names for Hossam

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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