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How popular is “Hussein” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hussein” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Hussein” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Hussein” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Hussein” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Hussein” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Hussein” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hussein” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 -100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 -100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 -100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 -100%
1980 19 0.000005516 19 -100%
1981 19 0.000005492 19 -100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 -100%
1983 23 0.000006641 23 -100%
1984 20 0.000005733 20 -100%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 -100%
1986 29 0.000008153 29 -100%
1987 28 0.000007766 28 -100%
1988 34 0.000009202 34 -100%
1989 40 0.000010405 40 -100%
1990 53 0.000013409 53 -100%
1991 41 0.000010526 41 -100%
1992 48 0.000012496 48 -100%
1993 47 0.000012466 47 -100%
1994 45 0.000012104 45 -100%
1995 63 0.000017203 63 -100%
1996 53 0.000014532 53 -100%
1997 62 0.0000171 62 -100%
1998 68 0.000018487 68 -100%
1999 71 0.000019221 71 -100%
2000 87 0.000023016 87 -100%
2001 73 0.000019501 73 -100%
2002 96 0.00002568 96 -100%
2003 82 0.000021566 82 -100%
2004 79 0.000020676 79 -100%
2005 84 0.000021847 84 -100%
2006 80 0.000020221 80 -100%
2007 91 0.000022763 91 -100%
2008 82 0.000020862 82 -100%
2009 111 0.000029056 111 -100%
2010 91 0.000024623 91 -100%
2011 95 0.000025972 95 -100%
2012 96 0.000026248 96 -100%
2013 115 0.000031544 115 -100%
2014 116 0.000031297 116 -100%
2015 135 0.000036477 135 -100%
2016 123 0.000033527 123 -100%
2017 127 0.000035513 127 -100%
2018 88 0.000025029 88 -100%
2019 83 0.000023913 83 -100%
2020 98 0.000029336 98 -100%
2021 99 0.000029221 99 -100%
2022 98 0.000028967 98 -100%
2023 108 0.000032617 108 -100%
2024 102 0.000030644 102 -100%

Explore other names

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  5. Hussan
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  8. Hussien
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