Hussein
Hussein was given to 83 boys in 2025, #1,894 among boys’ names; 3,402 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,340 Americans named Hussein and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hussein by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hussein mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hussein 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 Hussein?
#1,894 among boys’ names, 2025
Hussein fell from #1,311 in 2015 to #1,894 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 70.4 to 48.6 per million.
135 babies in 2015, the peak
Hussein peaked in 2015, when 135 boys were given it, #1,311 among boys’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,894 | 48.6 |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,655 | 59.2 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,614 | 63.1 |
| 2022 | 98 | #1,725 | 56.1 |
| 2021 | 99 | #1,672 | 56.6 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,639 | 56.8 |
| 2019 | 83 | #1,829 | 46.3 |
| 2018 | 88 | #1,751 | 48.5 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,390 | 68.6 |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,420 | 64.8 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,311 | 70.4 |
| 2014 | 116 | #1,433 | 60.4 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,438 | 60.8 |
| 2012 | 96 | #1,621 | 50.6 |
| 2011 | 95 | #1,613 | 50.0 |
| 2010 | 91 | #1,692 | 47.4 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,501 | 56.0 |
| 2008 | 82 | #1,807 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 91 | #1,675 | 43.8 |
| 2006 | 80 | #1,748 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,621 | 42.1 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,635 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 82 | #1,550 | 41.5 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,369 | 49.4 |
| 2001 | 73 | #1,616 | 37.6 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,418 | 44.3 |
| 1999 | 71 | #1,559 | 37.0 |
| 1998 | 68 | #1,560 | 35.6 |
| 1997 | 62 | #1,630 | 32.9 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,747 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 63 | #1,513 | 33.1 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,867 | 23.3 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,799 | 24.0 |
| 1992 | 48 | #1,748 | 24.0 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,898 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 53 | #1,570 | 25.8 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,867 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,922 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,142 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,026 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 29 | #1,985 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,566 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,235 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,022 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,527 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,573 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,068 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,976 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,094 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,579 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,675 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,641 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,722 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hussein a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hussein has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hussein: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hussein, and how old are they?
3,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,402 Americans ever recorded as Hussein. The median Hussein alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 7,190 people named Hussein (27 women and girls, 7,163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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 | 84 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 559 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Hussein born?
The states with the most babies named Hussein are Michigan, New York and California, with 88% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 20 | #428 | 10.8× |
| New York | 16 | #862 | 1.3× |
| California | 6 | #2,304 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,389 | 0.3× |
Where Hussein is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hussein is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1967 it was given 10.8 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 Hussein 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,301 babies since 1880, Hussein is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 170 babies (49%), again the 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 Hussein
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 Hussein and names like it
- Compare Hussein and HussainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHussein peaked in 2015.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hussein since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Hussein.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hussein alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.