Hussein

13,676 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hussein in the 2020 census, making it the 2,583rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,900.

By the numbers

People: 13,676
Rank: 2,583rd
How common: 1 in 21,900
Per 100,000: 4.6

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 47.8%
White, not Hispanic 40.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hussein

Saddam Hussein (1937–2006)Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Taha Hussein (1889–1973)Egyptian writer and literary critic
Uday Hussein (1964–2003)Iraqi politician and son of Saddam Hussein
Princess Haya bint Al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1974)Jordanian Royal
Nur Hassan Hussein (1938–2020)Somali politician
Raghad Hussein (born 1968)Saddam Hussein's daughter
Leyla Hussein (born 1980)British psychotherapist and social activist
Lubna al-Hussein (born 1973)Sudanese Muslim, media worker and activist

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

Surnames like Hussein

Also a first name

Hussein has been given to 3,402 American babies as a first name since 1967, peaking in 2015. 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.