Husain

surname · Hindi · Latin script

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

Husain is a surname, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’.

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●

From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Husain 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●

  • Hindi1.3M52%
  • 680K26%
  • Bangla131K5%
  • English112K4%
  • Urdu89K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi1,349,53752%
679,66026%
Bangla131,2825%
English111,9764%
Urdu89,0343%

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◐

Husain is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname702K records spelled Husain7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Malaysia

    Also written Ḥusain, Ḥuṣain, Ḥusaīn, Hüsain, Ḣusaĭn

  • Indonesian surname108K records spelled Husain7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Husain', 'Husain, Ḥusain, Husāin

  • Persian surname2.9K records spelled Husain9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Iran, United States

    Languages: Persian, Pashto

    Also written Ḥusain, Huşain, Hüsain, Ḣusaĭn, Ḥusaīn

  • Turkish surname1.1K records spelled Husain9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen, Azerbaijani

    Also written Huşain, Hüsain, Hùşâįñ, Ḥusain

49 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.

Other recorded senses●

Husain 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.

  • Hermoso, guapo

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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●

051015201980199020002010202019 · 2021

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Husain in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1979–2025
Yearrecords
19796
19806
19817
19825
198315
19847
198513
19867
19877
19896
19905
19929
19948
19977
19985
199912
200012
200113
20025
200311
20048
20059
200614
200713
200812
20098
201015
201111
20127
201310
20148
201511
201611
20178
201813
20199
202010
202119
202214
202314
202414
20258

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1979–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Tabarak Husain, b. 1924Javid Husain, b. 1944Tariq Husain, b. 1958Mishal Husain, b. 1973Sara Kelly-Husain, b. 1980Ahmed Husain, b. 1999Tasneem Zehra Husain, b. 2000

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 51 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Husain
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—189K#38
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—156K#135
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.2K#9,648
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.6K#12,164
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.1K#13,277
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020561#19,022
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025267#365
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—122#7,437
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—97#7,367
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—84#8,633
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202162#11,425
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202060—

Reference works 6

  • 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
  • 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 · 155 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Husain?
We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Husain (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Husain have the most bearers?
Husain is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled hossain.
How common is Husain compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Husain is the 4th most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Husain mean?
Recorded meaning: From the Arabic male personal name Husayn, literally ‘little Hasan’; a name meaning ‘good, handsome’.
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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, “Husain” — the 4th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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