Hosain

surname · Bangla · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hosain is a surname, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 22◐
  • PKPakistan1 in 24
  • TRTürkiye1 in 72

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈184K ●

across 7 countries

#63 ●

of 21M surnames

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
307 ●

9.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.8K ◐

Israel

Spellings & scripts●

HossainLatin · Bangla●7.8M records
হোসেনBengali · Bangla●44K records
חוסייןHebrew · Hebrew●32K records
ХусенCyrillic · Russian●7.4K records
ሁሴንEthiopic · Amharic●5K records
ฮูเซ็นThai · Thai●486 records
ΧουσείνGreek · Greek●6 records
ഹുസൈൻMalayalam · Malayalam●2 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hossain in BD Bangladesh, US United States, MY Malaysia and 5 more, Hüseyin in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, DE Germany and 3 more, Hussain in PK Pakistan, GB United Kingdom, SA Saudi Arabia and 3 more and Huseyin in FR France, IQ Iraq.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hosain is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#411,923,200195K rec.—4.6KHossain203
TR Türkiye—7,509,4966.9M rec.—572KHüseyin114
PK Pakistan#42,117,20143K rec.—listedHussain167
IN India#49155,8731.8M rec.1 in 8.5K156KHusain203
SY Syria#114148,314224K rec.——Hüseyin30
MY Malaysia#23105,33636K rec.—27Hossain57
GB United Kingdom#20098,21239K rec.—7Hussain187
DE Germany—59,92859K rec.—1Hüseyin107
IR Iran—43,74128K rec.——Hossein110
SA Saudi Arabia#842,86817K rec.—listedHussain153
TH Thailand#6737,04525K rec.—#843,400Hossain58
AE United Arab Emirates#619,97718K rec.——Hussain161

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bangla225K50%
  • English215K48%
  • 4.3K1%
  • Hindi2.2K1%
  • Arabic1.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla224,73050%
English215,45548%
4,3431%
Hindi2,2161%
Arabic1,8971%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hosain is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname421 records spelled Hosain3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Hosãin

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

051015202015202020 · 2019

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Hosain in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2015–2020
Yearrecords
201512
201614
201716
201819
201920
202019

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 6 years between 2015–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Hosain
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—541#1,143
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020237#85,054
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000150#109,328
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010101#159,712
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—62#38,981
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—47#14,282
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—45#48,010
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—45#47,706
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—35#17,154
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—35#37,493
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#12,306
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#16,388

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 56 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hosain?
We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Hosain (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Hosain have the most bearers?
Hosain is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled hossain.
How common is Hosain compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Hosain is the 4th most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hosain” — the 4th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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