Hussien

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Hussien has been given to 280 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 2001, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Hussien, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Hussien?

Hussien 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 Hussien 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 Hussien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hussiens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hussien was born before 2002 — so the typical Hussien is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
280
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Hussien 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (19)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,182
2001

Spellings of Hussien

Hussien is not the most common spelling — Hussein is, with 45.9% against Hussien's 3.8%.

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 Hussien is used

Across 1910–2025, Hussien was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 268,824 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2New 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. Hussien has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hussien around the world

Where Hussien 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
    2001–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1994–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1994–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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

Hussien 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,182
2001
Peak year
2001
19 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
280
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hussien

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

Sibling names for Hussien

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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