Hossain
surname · Bangla · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hossain 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. Recorded meaning: different form of Husain.
- 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 ●
- #63 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 307 ●
- 1 in 3.8K ◐
across 7 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
9.8M records
Official registry-verified
Israel
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hüseyin in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, DE Germany and 3 more, Hussain in PK Pakistan, GB United Kingdom, SA Saudi Arabia and 3 more, Huseyin in FR France, IQ Iraq and Husain in IN India.
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●
different form of Husain.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #4 | 11,923,200 | 195K rec. | — | 4.6K | Hossain | 203 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 7,509,496 | 6.9M rec. | — | 572K | Hüseyin | 114 |
| PK Pakistan | #4 | 2,117,201 | 43K rec. | — | listed | Hussain | 167 |
| IN India | #49 | 155,873 | 1.8M rec. | 1 in 8.5K | 156K | Husain | 203 |
| SY Syria | #114 | 148,314 | 224K rec. | — | — | Hüseyin | 30 |
| MY Malaysia | #23 | 105,336 | 36K rec. | — | 27 | Hossain | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | #200 | 98,212 | 39K rec. | — | 7 | Hussain | 187 |
| DE Germany | — | 59,928 | 59K rec. | — | 1 | Hüseyin | 107 |
| IR Iran | — | 43,741 | 28K rec. | — | — | Hossein | 110 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #8 | 42,868 | 17K rec. | — | listed | Hussain | 153 |
| TH Thailand | #67 | 37,045 | 25K rec. | — | #843,400 | Hossain | 58 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #6 | 19,977 | 18K rec. | — | — | Hussain | 161 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bangla7.8M51%
- English6.9M45%
- 418K3%
- Hindi88K1%
- Arabic34K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bangla | 7,828,676 | 51% |
| English | 6,912,300 | 45% |
| 418,178 | 3% | |
| Hindi | 88,037 | 1% |
| Arabic | 33,628 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hossain is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of Husain.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 27 |
| 2000 | 28 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 29 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| 2004 | 31 |
| 2005 | 31 |
| 2006 | 35 |
| 2007 | 36 |
| 2008 | 37 |
| 2009 | 37 |
| 2010 | 38 |
| 2011 | 40 |
| 2012 | 41 |
| 2013 | 48 |
| 2014 | 49 |
| 2015 | 53 |
| 2016 | 55 |
| 2017 | 66 |
| 2018 | 75 |
| 2019 | 77 |
| 2020 | 82 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Qazi Motahar Hossainb. 1897BDBangladeshi writer and scientist (1897-1981)
- Kamal Hossainb. 1937BDBengali lawyer and politician (born 1937)
- Amjad Hossainb. 1942BDBangladeshi film director, actor, scriptwriter and lyricist
- Selina Hossainb. 1947BDBengali writer
- Muhammad Touhid Hossainb. 1955BDBangladeshi former foreign secretary and former high commissioner
- A F M Khalid Hossainb. 1956BDBangladeshi Islamic scholar
- Saima Wazedb. 1972BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi psychologist
- Sanwar Hossainb. 1973BDcricketer
- Enamul Hossainb. 1981BDBangladeshi chess player
- Mosaddek Hossain Saikatb. 1995BDBangladeshi cricketer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 54 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,784 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6K | #5,788 |
| BD Bangladesh | Bangladeshi name database containing surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency. | 2023 | 4.6K | #2 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,118 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.2K | #401 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #2,424 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #2,423 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.1K | #949 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.1K | #2,815 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 780 | #4,690 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 378 | #3,479 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 167 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hossain?
- We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Hossain (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hossain have the most bearers?
- Hossain is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled hossain.
- How common is Hossain compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Hossain is the 4th most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Hossain mean?
- Recorded meaning: different form of Husain.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hossain” — the 4th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.