Hussain

Hussain is the 1,843rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,121 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,600.

By the numbers

People: 19,121
Rank: 1,843rd
How common: 1 in 15,600
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hussain described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 81.3%
White, not Hispanic 9.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hussain

Mamnoon Hussain (1940–2021)12th president of Pakistan from 2013 to 2018
Adil Hussain (born 1963)Indian actor of Iraqi origin
Netha Hussain (born 1990)Indian physician, researcher and Wikimedian
Etzaz Hussain (born 1993)Pakistani association football player
Nadiya Hussain (born 1984)British-Bangladeshi baker, columnist and author
Nasir Hussain (1931–2002)Indian film director
Warina Hussain (born 1999)Afghan actress and model
Dana Hussain (born 1986)Iraqi sprinter

People named Hussain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hussain

Also a first name

Hussain has been given to 2,069 American babies as a first name since 1978, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.