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Hussain

#1,947 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Husayn

Hussain has been given to 2,069 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,947 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 101 recorded.

Babies named Hussain, 2025

1 in 42,000

Hussain over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hussain: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Husayn

Arabic

What Hussain means

Hussain is a alternate transcription of Husayn.

Origin, language, and formation

Hussain is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Husayn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,069 boys were recorded with the name Hussain between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 101 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,630 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,725 in 2020 to #1,947 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,772 in 2015 to #1,947 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 Hussain?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,000
79 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 21,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,947
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,088 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hussain 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hussain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hussains were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hussain was born before 2014 — so the typical Hussain is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,069
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (782).

Is Hussain 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
−282
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−222
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−175
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.2%
Peak was 2024 (101)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,630
2018

Spellings of Hussain

Hussain is not the most common spelling — Hassan is, with 69.2% against Hussain's 11.6%.

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 Hussain is used

Across 2016–2025, Hussain was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 15,063 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 4,762
  2. 2New York1 in 7,143
  3. 3Illinois1 in 8,333
  4. 4Virginia1 in 10,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 12,500
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 16,667
  7. 7Texas1 in 16,667
  8. 8California1 in 25,000

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.

Hussain around the world

Where Hussain 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
    #334
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #2,270
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2022
    #457
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #886
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Hussain

People whose public names include Hussain, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hussain by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,947
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 222
Best rank ever
#1,630
2018
Peak year
2024
101 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,069
Count in 2025
79

Names similar to Hussain

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

HusainHusseinHustonJermainAntwainHusnainGermainBritainMcclainAdrainCaptainHussamChristainMaclainBlainHusaynHusamHasnainHussienTremainShainAlainDainIain

Names with a curve like Hussain

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hussain, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CalderGavrielJourneyYasinAnasSaifSimchaShalomAmmarSteeleKhaledJessiah

Sibling names for Hussain

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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