Hussayn
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- hu-SAYN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Hussayn is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “little good one, handsome”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Hussayn mean?
Arabic: spelling of Husayn; diminutive of Hasan
“little good one, handsome”
Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was killed at Karbala in 680, an event mourned at Ashura.
Meaning borrowed from Husayn. More on Wiktionary.
Is Hussayn a girl's or a boy's name?
Hussayn is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hussayn in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Hussayn, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2021, with 9 boys.
In 2025, 190 boys in the UK were given Hussayn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #279, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Hussayn in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,434 |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
Names like Hussayn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Zayaan, Hamza, Amir, Huzaifa, Zayan, Zayd, Musa, Umar, Zayyan, Hakeem, Azaan
Other spellings of Hussayn
Names related to Hussayn
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hussayn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hussayn, updated 20 October 2026.