Hussein
#1,886 for boys in 2025, 83 births
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 135 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,402since 1967
Hussein over time
Rank among boys' names. Hussein 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 | #1,886 | 83 |
| 2024 | #1,650 | 102 |
| 2023 | #1,608 | 108 |
| 2022 | #1,720 | 98 |
| 2021 | #1,667 | 99 |
| 2020 | #1,634 | 98 |
| 2019 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #1,744 | 88 |
| 2017 | #1,384 | 127 |
| 2016 | #1,419 | 123 |
| 2015 | #1,307 | 135 |
| 2014 | #1,432 | 116 |
| 2013 | #1,433 | 115 |
| 2012 | #1,617 | 96 |
| 2011 | #1,611 | 95 |
| 2010 | #1,687 | 91 |
| 2009 | #1,497 | 111 |
| 2008 | #1,802 | 82 |
| 2007 | #1,669 | 91 |
| 2006 | #1,738 | 80 |
| 2005 | #1,619 | 84 |
| 2004 | #1,629 | 79 |
| 2003 | #1,548 | 82 |
| 2002 | #1,372 | 96 |
| 2001 | #1,617 | 73 |
| 2000 | #1,420 | 87 |
| 1999 | #1,560 | 71 |
| 1998 | #1,558 | 68 |
| 1997 | #1,628 | 62 |
| 1996 | #1,740 | 53 |
| 1995 | #1,508 | 63 |
| 1994 | #1,868 | 45 |
| 1993 | #1,792 | 47 |
| 1992 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | #1,895 | 41 |
| 1990 | #1,564 | 53 |
| 1989 | #1,858 | 40 |
| 1988 | #1,909 | 34 |
| 1987 | #2,115 | 28 |
| 1986 | #2,007 | 29 |
| 1985 | #1,975 | 29 |
| 1984 | #2,529 | 19 |
| 1983 | #2,208 | 23 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #2,496 | 19 |
| 1980 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #3,471 | 10 |
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| 1974 | #3,558 | 9 |
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| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
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| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Hussein! It came in at #3,559, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Hussein is popular in 1967
No state had 5 or more boys named Hussein in 1967, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Hussein
- 236 spots since 2024 (#1,650 → #1,886)
- 252 spots since 2020 (#1,634 → #1,886)
- 579 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,886)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2015 at #1,307 (135 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,198 boys born in 2015 were named Hussein (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,579 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.4% of all boys named Hussein (1,069) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,559 (1967) | #3,559 |
| 1970s | 68 | #2,929 (1978) | #3,256 |
| 1980s | 255 | #1,858 (1989) | #2,261 |
| 1990s | 551 | #1,508 (1995) | #1,686 |
| 2000s | 865 | #1,372 (2002) | #1,591 |
| 2010s | 1,069 | #1,307 (2015) | #1,546 |
| 2020s | 588 | #1,608 (2023) | #1,694 |
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.
Hussein in 1967
Top boys' names in 1967
More about 1967
boys
1,743,811 boys got a published name in 1967; 1 in 290,635 of them was named Hussein, which outranked 21.8% of the 4,551 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,231Yuval7
- #3,231Yvon7
- #3,231Zak7
- #3,559Hussein6
- #3,559Abran6
- #3,559Adams6
- #3,559Adriano6
- #3,966Aarron5
- #3,966Abdullah5
- #3,966Abelino5
Tied with 406 names at #3,559; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.