In 2025, 79 US boys were named Hussain, making it the 1,947th most common boys’ name of the year, down 282 places from #1,665 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 101 boys named Hussain in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,630, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 101, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,772 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hussain in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 8 babies. In all, 2,069 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 782 babies named Hussain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 906 US boys were named Hussain; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 101. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,621 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hussain ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #740 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hussein (3,402 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Husayn are summarised on this page.