Hussain
Hussain reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 1,661, and has been recorded 2,069 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,942nd. About 2,000 Hussains are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hussain
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,069
- Estimated living today
- 2,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,661st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,942nd
- First recorded
- 1978
How old the living Hussains are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,069 babies given the name since 1978, about 2,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hussains
- Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930–2019)President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990 Former (6th) Army chief of Bangladesh
- Hussain Ahmad Madani (1879–1957)Indian freedom struggle leader and scholar
- Hussain Shah (born 1964)Pakistan boxer
- Hussain Al Jassmi (born 1979)Emirati singer
People named Hussain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hussain is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hussain is most concentrated in Michigan (5.5×), New York (3.2×), Texas (2.3×), Virginia (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Hussain peaked:
Hussain elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Hussain | 2,579 | 334th |
| Italy boys | Hussain | 187 | — |
| France boys | Hussain | 160 | 2,140th |
| Norway boys | Hussain | 150 | 333rd |
| Scotland boys | Hussain | 69 | 442nd |
| Belgium boys | Hussain | 38 | 911th |
| Ireland boys | Hussain | 34 | 509th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Hussain: rank by region
In 2024, Hussain was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Hussain | 257 | 5 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hussain appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (257th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Hussain by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 6 | 421st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hussain among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Hussain | 59 | 123 |
| Finland girls | Hussain | — | 19 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Hussain lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 415 men called Hussain were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Hussain | 171 | 0.059 | 1,012 |
| Tarragona | Hussain | 23 | 0.052 | 1,186 |
| Huesca | Hussain | 5 | 0.043 | 1,362 |
| Rioja, La | Hussain | 6 | 0.037 | 1,385 |
| Zaragoza | Hussain | 16 | 0.033 | 1,590 |
| Girona | Hussain | 11 | 0.026 | 1,989 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Hussain against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.