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Latin spelling of the Arabic name حسين (Husayn), a diminutive form of Hassan [1] [2]
Hossein | ♂ |
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Arabic |
Husayn | ♂ |
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Arabic |
Husein | ♂ |
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Arabic |
Huseyin | ♂ |
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Arabic |
Hussain | ♂ |
|
Arabic |
Hussein | ♂ |
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Arabic |
Hüseyin | ♂ |
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Turkish |
Hussein is a name used among immigrants from Arabic-speaking countries, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[3] |
|
3337 | 9368 | 10 | 2590 | 3327 | 6778 |
Finland[4] |
|
n.a. |
1870 | n.a. |
482 | n.a. |
1388 |
Denmark[5] |
|
920 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
920 | n.a. |
Iceland[6] |
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0 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[7] |
|
744 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
744 | n.a. |
Greenland[8] |
|
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only | |||||||
&: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |