Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Hossein

#18,502 most common boys' name of all time · #48,447 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1975–2022

Rank among boys
#18,502
Rank overall
#48,447 of 105,966
First appeared
1975
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
61
Since 2016
21
Peak year
1987 #5,877
Best rank
#5,463 1982
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
198020002020

Hossein first appears in 1975. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2022 — 6 6 #11,209
2021 — 5 5 #12,583
2019 — 5 5 #12,607
2018 — 5 5 #12,613
1990 — 5 5 #8,779
1987 — 7 7 #5,877
1982 — 7 7 #5,463
1979 — 5 5 #6,765
1978 — 5 5 #6,490
1977 — 6 6 #5,685
1975 — 5 5 #6,197