Huseyin
A Turkish name meaning "handsome, good". Barely 50 men in Poland carry it, and records since 2000 show no boys given it, so most Poles have never met one.
Huseyin Pronunciation
Huseyin is pronounced khoo-se-IH-een (/xusɛˈɨin/).
What Huseyin means
Where Huseyin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Huseyin travels into Polish from Turkish, where it is written Hüseyin. Behind it sits the Arabic Husayn, a diminutive of Hasan, and both names turn on the same idea: handsome, good, beautiful. The diminutive adds warmth. A small Hasan becomes a Husayn, the good one made dearer.
The most documented bearer is Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who died at Karbala in 680. His name spread across the Muslim world and reached Anatolia, where Turkish speakers shaped it into Hüseyin. For Turkish families it became one of the steadiest given names.
In Poland the name arrives mostly with Turkish neighbours and new citizens. A clerk at the urząd writes Huseyin without the dotted vowel above the u. The sense holds: piękny, dobry, handsome and good.
How many people are named Huseyin
1 in 410504 men in Poland is named Huseyin. 52 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5203 among male names.
Huseyin as a middle name
Huseyin is a first name for 52 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3893rd, between Husain (7) and Huw (7).
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#3891 Hryhorii7
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#3892 Husain7
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#3893 Huseyin7
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#3894 Huw7
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#3895 Hygin7