Hossen
surname · Bangla · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hossen 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.
- 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●
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.
| 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●
- Bangla1.5M50%
- English1.5M48%
- 19K1%
- Hindi9.1K1%
- Arabic6.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bangla | 1,535,616 | 50% |
| English | 1,467,441 | 48% |
| 19,219 | 1% | |
| Hindi | 9,052 | 1% |
| Arabic | 6,470 | 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●
Hossen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, form removed with the spelling reform of 1959; superseded by hvordan how (dialectal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, to dance and bounce about arm in arm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, alternative form of korleis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1901 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1961 | 1 |
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1991 | 9 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 6 years between 1901–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mario Hossenb. 1971BGaustrian-Bulgarian violinist and conductor
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
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 · 59 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hossen?
- We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Hossen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hossen have the most bearers?
- Hossen is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled hossain.
- How common is Hossen compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Hossen is the 4th most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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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.
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, “Hossen” — the 4th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.