Meaning not yet researched.
Hussein: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,311 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,311 in 2015; #1,894 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hussein in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,894 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,311.
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Hussein: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,311 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 135 (2015).
In 2025, 83 US boys were named Hussein, making it the 1,894th most common boys’ name of the year, down 239 places from #1,655 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 102 boys named Hussein in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,311, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 135. For comparison, it was #1,311 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hussein in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 6 babies. In all, 3,402 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,069 babies named Hussein.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,009 US boys were named Hussein; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 127. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,579 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hussein ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #428 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hussain (2,069 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Husain, Hussien and Husein are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Husain (412), Hussien (280), Husein (88), Hossein (61), Hussan (50), Hussen (15), Hossain (13), Hussin (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Hussein in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 20 | #428 | #289 |
| New York | 16 | #862 | #1,034 |
| California | 6 | #2,304 | #1,233 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,389 | #1,485 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 83 | #1,894 |
| 2024 | — | — | 102 | #1,655 |
| 2023 | — | — | 108 | #1,614 |
| 2022 | — | — | 98 | #1,725 |
| 2021 | — | — | 99 | #1,672 |
| 2020 | — | — | 98 | #1,639 |
| 2019 | — | — | 83 | #1,829 |
| 2018 | — | — | 88 | #1,751 |
| 2017 | — | — | 127 | #1,390 |
| 2016 | — | — | 123 | #1,420 |
| 2015 | — | — | 135 | #1,311 |
| 2014 | — | — | 116 | #1,433 |
| 2013 | — | — | 115 | #1,438 |
| 2012 | — | — | 96 | #1,622 |
| 2011 | — | — | 95 | #1,613 |
| 2010 | — | — | 91 | #1,692 |
| 2009 | — | — | 111 | #1,502 |
| 2008 | — | — | 82 | #1,807 |
| 2007 | — | — | 91 | #1,675 |
| 2006 | — | — | 80 | #1,748 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,623 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,638 |
| 2003 | — | — | 82 | #1,553 |
| 2002 | — | — | 96 | #1,372 |
| 2001 | — | — | 73 | #1,620 |
| 2000 | — | — | 87 | #1,422 |
| 1999 | — | — | 71 | #1,562 |
| 1998 | — | — | 68 | #1,563 |
| 1997 | — | — | 62 | #1,633 |
| 1996 | — | — | 53 | #1,750 |
| 1995 | — | — | 63 | #1,518 |
| 1994 | — | — | 45 | #1,872 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,804 |
| 1992 | — | — | 48 | #1,753 |
| 1991 | — | — | 41 | #1,904 |
| 1990 | — | — | 53 | #1,575 |
| 1989 | — | — | 40 | #1,872 |
| 1988 | — | — | 34 | #1,927 |
| 1987 | — | — | 28 | #2,146 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,028 |
| 1985 | — | — | 29 | #1,986 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,567 |
| 1983 | — | — | 23 | #2,236 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,023 |
| 1981 | — | — | 19 | #2,528 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,574 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,069 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,977 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,095 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,581 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,677 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,643 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,723 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).