Given name & surname · also Turkish
Hüseyin
Hüseyin is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hüseyin comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
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How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish حسین (Hüseyin), from Arabic حُسَيْن; its root is Arabic ح س ن.
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Hüseyin’s family of names
In Uyghur usage, Hüseyin is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ھۈسەيىن.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hüseyin
- Sultan Husayn BayqaraTimurid monarch1438–1506
- Rauf OrbayPrime Minister of Turkey (1881–1964)
- Hüseyin ÖzkanTurkish judoka (born 1972)
- Huseyn JavidAzerbaijani poet and playwright (1882–1941)
- Hüseyin BeşokTurkish basketball player (born 1975)
- Hussein ChalayanTurco Cypriot and British fashion designer (born 1970)
- Hüseyin AkbaşTurkish wrestler (1933–1989)
- Hüseyin ÇimşirTurkish association football player (born 1979)
- Hüseyin KartalTurkish association football player (born 1982)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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