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Husam

#12,723 in 2025Boys' name

Sword

Husam has been given to 444 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #12,723 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Husam, 2025

1 in 663,000

Husam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Husam: meaning, origin, and history

Sword

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Husam means

Husam means “sword”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Husam is used in Arabic.

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

Origin, language, and formation

Husam is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 444 boys were recorded with the name Husam between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2002; its best national rank was #4,076 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,424 in 2020 to #12,723 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,048 in 2015 to #12,723 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Husam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,723
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Husam 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Husam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Husams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Husam was born before 2003 — so the typical Husam is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
444
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Choose a decade

2000s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (119).

Is Husam 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
−6,299
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,675
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.3%
Peak was 2002 (19)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,076
1996

Spellings of Husam

Husam is not the most common spelling — Sam is, with 80.5% against Husam's 0.28%.

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.

Where Husam is used

Across 1910–2025, Husam was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Husam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Husam around the world

Where Husam 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Husam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,723
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,299
Best rank ever
#4,076
1996
Peak year
2002
19 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
444
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Husam

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

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Sibling names for Husam

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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