Hussain
#1,942 for boys in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 100 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,069since 1978
Hussain over time
Rank among boys' names. Hussain has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,942 | 79 |
| 2024 | #1,661 | 101 |
| 2023 | #1,832 | 87 |
| 2022 | #1,826 | 88 |
| 2021 | #1,903 | 80 |
| 2020 | #1,716 | 90 |
| 2019 | #1,723 | 91 |
| 2018 | #1,625 | 100 |
| 2017 | #1,630 | 97 |
| 2016 | #1,687 | 93 |
| 2015 | #1,767 | 86 |
| 2014 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #2,185 | 60 |
| 2011 | #1,999 | 68 |
| 2010 | #2,212 | 59 |
| 2009 | #2,348 | 55 |
| 2008 | #2,374 | 54 |
| 2007 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | #2,881 | 39 |
| 2005 | #3,172 | 32 |
| 2004 | #2,489 | 44 |
| 2003 | #2,620 | 38 |
| 2002 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #2,429 | 40 |
| 2000 | #2,864 | 31 |
| 1999 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #2,400 | 32 |
| 1994 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #3,070 | 15 |
| 1984 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
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| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Hussain! It came in at #4,157, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Hussain is popular in 1978
No state had 5 or more boys named Hussain in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Hussain
- 281 spots since 2024 (#1,661 → #1,942)
- 226 spots since 2020 (#1,716 → #1,942)
- 175 spots since 2015 (#1,767 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2018 at #1,625 (100 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,058 boys born in 2024 were named Hussain (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,621 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,625 in 2018, was only 1 in 18,162 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.8% of all boys named Hussain (782) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8 | #4,157 (1978) | #4,157 |
| 1980s | 140 | #2,676 (1983) | #3,514 |
| 1990s | 213 | #2,400 (1995) | #3,496 |
| 2000s | 401 | #2,348 (2009) | #2,718 |
| 2010s | 782 | #1,625 (2018) | #1,905 |
| 2020s | 525 | #1,661 (2024) | #1,813 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Hussain in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 205,230 of them was named Hussain, which outranked 38.5% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,857Zebediah9
- #3,857Zion9
- #3,857Zoltan9
- #4,157Hussain8
- #4,157Abimael8
- #4,157Adrean8
- #4,157Airrion8
- #4,554Abasi7
- #4,554Abdallah7
- #4,554Absalom7
Tied with 396 names at #4,157; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.