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Husayn

#3,604 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Hasan

Husayn has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #3,604 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Husayn, 2025

1 in 107,000

Husayn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Husayn: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Hasan

Arabic

What Husayn means

Husayn is a diminutive of Hasan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Husayn → Hasan. The family’s meaning is “fine, good, good-looking, handsome, manly; strong”, recorded in English with the source elements ḥasan.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Arabic حُسَيْن (ḥusayn), from the root ح س ن (ḥ s n).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Husayn (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Husayn is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Husayn comes through Arabic حُسَيْن.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hasan, حُسَيْن and حسن.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 boys were recorded with the name Husayn between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,604 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,767 in 2020 to #3,604 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,830 in 2015 to #3,604 in 2025.

How common is Husayn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,604
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Husayn 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Husayn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Husayns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Husayn was born before 2020 — so the typical Husayn is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 53.0% of all recorded uses (115).

Is Husayn 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
+752
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,163
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,226
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (31)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,604
2025

Spellings of Husayn

Husayn is not the most common spelling — Hasan is, with 20.4% against Husayn's 0.82%.

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 Husayn is used

Across 1910–2025, Husayn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,580,911 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Husayn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Husayn around the world

Where Husayn 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
    1999–2025
    #1,466
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #3,482
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024

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.

Husayn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,604
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,163
Best rank ever
#3,604
2025
Peak year
2025
31 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
217
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Husayn

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

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Sibling names for Husayn

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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