Hussein

Where Hussein comes from

The dictionaries list Hussein as a given name — a male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Husayn — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1967
    First appearance
    #3,559 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2015
    Peak, #1,307
    135 babies named Hussein — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Husayn.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Hussein hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.