Hussain
Hussain was given to 79 boys in 2025, #1,947 among boys’ names; 2,069 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,040 Americans named Hussain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hussain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hussain mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hussain is “a male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Husayn.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hussain?
#1,947 among boys’ names, 2025
Hussain fell from #1,772 in 2015 to #1,947 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 44.9 to 46.3 per million.
101 babies in 2024, the peak
Hussain peaked in 2024, when 101 boys were given it, #1,665 among boys’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #1,947 | 46.3 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,665 | 58.6 |
| 2023 | 87 | #1,840 | 50.9 |
| 2022 | 88 | #1,832 | 50.4 |
| 2021 | 80 | #1,906 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 90 | #1,725 | 52.1 |
| 2019 | 91 | #1,728 | 50.7 |
| 2018 | 100 | #1,630 | 55.1 |
| 2017 | 97 | #1,635 | 52.4 |
| 2016 | 93 | #1,690 | 49.0 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,772 | 44.9 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,184 | 32.3 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,050 | 34.9 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,190 | 31.6 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,009 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,219 | 30.8 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,364 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 54 | #2,389 | 26.5 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,329 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,897 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,187 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,506 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,637 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,710 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,445 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,878 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,484 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,134 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,386 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,776 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,415 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,653 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,290 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,668 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,243 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,506 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,372 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,008 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,998 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,932 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,125 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,015 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,714 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,021 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,667 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,279 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,306 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hussain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hussain has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hussain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hussain, and how old are they?
2,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,069 Americans ever recorded as Hussain. The median Hussain alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,800 people named Hussain (16 women and girls, 2,784 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,110 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Hussain born?
The states with the most babies named Hussain are Texas, New York and Michigan, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,437 | 0.8× |
| New York | 11 | #1,075 | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 10 | #740 | 3.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #864 | 0.5× |
| California | 6 | #2,303 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,187 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,314 | 0.1× |
Where Hussain is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hussain is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1978 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hussain with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,518 babies since 1880, Hussain is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 201 babies (39%), again the second most given.
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 Hussain
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 Hussain and names like it
- Compare Hussain and HusseinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHussain peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hussain since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hussain.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hussain alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.