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Hossein

Boys' name

Form of Husayn

Hossein has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1982, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Hossein, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hossein: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Husayn

Persian

What Hossein means

Hossein is a form of Husayn.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hossein is used in Persian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ho.ˈsejn/ for Hossein.

Origin, language, and formation

Hossein is used in Cebuano. Its origins include Persian.

Hossein comes through Persian حسین.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Husayn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 boys were recorded with the name Hossein between 1975 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1982; its best national rank was #5,253 in 1982.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hossein?

Hossein had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hossein 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hossein. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hosseins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hossein was born before 1987 — so the typical Hossein is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
61
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Hossein 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 1982 (7)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,253
1982

Spellings of Hossein

Hossein is not the most common spelling — Hussein is, with 61.5% against Hossein's 1.1%.

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.

Hossein around the world

Where Hossein 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
    2016–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • France
    1964–2024
    #5,293
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2016–2022
    #2,147
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hossein 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
#5,253
1982
Peak year
1982
7 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hossein

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

HossamKhyreinHosteenHoskieHossHossainHosamDaymeinDarreinAdreinHuseinHosiaJadeinAdeinJaydeinReinAlhusseinHostonHoscarCaseinKleinSteinDareinJavein

Sibling names for Hossein

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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