Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hussien is a form of Husayn. Husayn comes from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hussien through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 280
- 280 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 592 as a first name in 2020; 1,093 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hussien’s family of names
In English usage, Hussien as a surname has a related form in Husayn.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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