Husain
Husain was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,217 among boys’ names; 412 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Husain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Husain?
#9,217 among boys’ names, 2025
Husain fell from #7,242 in 2015 to #9,217 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 4.7 per million.
19 babies in 2021, the peak
Husain peaked in 2021, when 19 boys were given it, #4,991 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,217 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,291 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,314 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,267 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,991 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,716 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,446 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,490 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,153 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,320 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,242 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,092 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,721 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,103 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,168 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,837 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,295 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,904 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,396 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,889 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,878 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,414 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,415 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,328 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,479 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,695 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,438 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,217 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,576 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,606 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,820 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,628 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,339 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,714 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,562 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,486 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,187 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,978 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,742 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,148 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,817 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,634 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Husain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Husain has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Husain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Husain, and how old are they?
An estimated 402 Americans named Husain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 562 people named Husain (1 woman or girl, 561 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 329 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Husain?
Husain is a less common spelling of Hussain: SSA has recorded 412 Husain and 2,069 Hussain since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,518 babies since 1880, Husain is the third most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 201 babies (4.0%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Husain
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Husain and names like it
- Compare Husain and HussainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHusain peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Husain since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Husain.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Husain alive today were born 1997-2012.
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