Transliterated from the Arabic, where it is a diminutive of a name meaning “good” or “handsome,” this name can be spelled many different ways in the Latin alphabet, though one has become particularly well-known in the United States. What name, supposedly first used by the prophet Muhammad to name his grandson, was given to the King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999, as well as being the commonly used surname of another regional leader whose family name was actually al-Tikriti?
Hussein