Hussein
Hussein is a boy's name that peaked in 2015, when it was the 1,307th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,886th. About 3,300 Husseins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hussein
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,402
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 1,307th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,886th
- First recorded
- 1967
How old the living Husseins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,402 babies given the name since 1967, about 3,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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 Husseins
- Hussein I of Jordan (1935–1999)King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999
- Hussein bin Ali (1853–1931)Sharif and Emir of Mecca, then King of Hejaz and Sharifian Caliph
- Hussein bin Abdullah, Crown Prince of Jordan (born 1994)Crown Prince of Jordan
- Hussein Kamel of Egypt (1853–1917)Sultan of Egypt
- Hussein Arnous (born 1953)68th Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic
- Hussein Onn (1922–1990)prime Minister of Malaysia from 1976 to 1981
- Hussein Ahmed Salah (born 1956)Long-distance runner from Djibouti
- Hussein Ali (born 2002)Swedish-Iraqi footballer
People named Hussein with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hussein is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hussein is most concentrated in Michigan (14.9×), Minnesota (2.2×), New York (1.7×), California (1.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Hussein peaked:
Hussein elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Hussein | 856 | 692nd |
| Norway boys | Hussein | 754 | 217th |
| France boys | Hussein +1 spelling | 700 | 996th |
| Belgium boys | Hussein | 191 | 523rd |
| Switzerland boys | Hussein | 96 | 576th |
| Ireland boys | Hussein | 6 | 711th |
| Poland boys | Hussein | 4 birth registrations | 663rd |
| Scotland boys | Hussein | 3 | 317th |
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.
Hussein: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Hussein | 62 | 0.005% | 531st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Hussein | 34 | 0.008% | 364th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Hussein is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Hussein: rank by region
In 2025, Hussein was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Hussein | 265 | 5 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hussein appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (265th).
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.
Hussein by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 144 | 141st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hussein 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 | Hussein | 386 | 883 |
| Finland girls | Hussein | — | 358 |
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 Hussein lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 267 men called Hussein 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Hussein | 22 | 0.503 | 291 |
| Ceuta | Hussein | 9 | 0.214 | 449 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Hussein | 10 | 0.019 | 3,506 |
| Palmas, Las | Hussein | 9 | 0.015 | 4,144 |
| Asturias | Hussein | 7 | 0.014 | 2,490 |
| Granada | Hussein | 6 | 0.013 | 2,589 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 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
Hussein 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.