Hussain

surname · Urdu · Latin script

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

Hussain is a surname, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Urdu 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, 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●

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 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hussain 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●

  • Urdu2.5M46%
  • 790K15%
  • English651K12%
  • Hindi529K10%
  • Bangla393K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu2,457,89146%
790,07715%
English650,88212%
Hindi528,77910%
Bangla392,5557%

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◐

Hussain is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname845K records spelled Hussain40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hüssain, Hųśşáin, Huessain, Hüssãin, Hüssäïñ

  • a separate surname835K records spelled Hussain4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Hussaīn, Ḥussain, Hussaĭn

  • Spanish surname50K records spelled Hussain27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hüssåîñ, Hússãíñ, Hǖssẳin, Hussaîn, Ḥussain

  • French surname28K records spelled Hussain13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Huššãin, Hûšşäiň, Hussaïn, Hûssain, Hússâïñ

  • Polish surname4.4K records spelled Hussain5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United Kingdom, United States, India

    Also written Husśain, Hussåin, Ĥussǻįn, Hùśśåiň

64 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●

Hussain 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 Arabic, diminutive of Hasan, ‘little handsome’; name of Husayn, grandson of the Prophet.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In English, A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Husayn.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Arabic, good

    as a nameAfrican Muslim 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●

02505007501K19201940196019802000807 · 1982

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Hussain in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1911–2017
Yearrecords
19111
19121
19161
19171
191818
19191
19204
19214
19229
192317
19248
192510
192619
192717
192830
192925
193050
193136
193231
193362
193438
193583
193661
193766
193892
193981
1940105
1941102
1942110
1943130
1944112
1945164
1946149
1947156
1948174
1949164
1950213
1951226
1952206
1953220
1954245
1955328
1956225
1957234
1958320
1959287
1960325
1961317
1962351
1963365
1964353
1965479
1966323
1967357
1968473
1969432
1970572
1971438
1972498
1973493
1974514
1975574
1976482
1977453
1978515
1979545
1980660
1981644
1982807
1983538
1984542
1985499
1986559
1987598
1988590
1989641
1990582
1991532
1992507
1993561
1994466
1995370
1996219
1997222
1998150
19994
20074
200840
200914
201030
201167
201253
201382
201487
201578
20172

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 96 years between 1911–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Anwar Hussain, b. 1925Nasir Hussain, b. 1931Mamnoon Hussain, b. 1940Ishrat Hussain, b. 1941Adil Hussain, b. 1963Aamir Khan, b. 1965Karim Hussain, b. 1974Netha Hussain, b. 1990Junaid Hussain, b. 1994Warina Hussain, b. 1999

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 81 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Hussain
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—24K#529
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202019K#1,843
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201017K#2,146
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200011K#2,996
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—6.5K#828
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6.5K#828
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4K#211
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.8K#5,907
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20252K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—2K#185
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.7K#614
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251.3K#57

Reference works 8

  • 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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 664 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hussain?
We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Hussain (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Hussain have the most bearers?
Hussain is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled hossain.
How common is Hussain compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Hussain is the 4th most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Hussain 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, “Hussain” — the 4th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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