Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: lang: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Saddam, pronounced , is his personal name, and means the stubborn one or he who confronts in Arabic (in Iraq also a term for a car's bumper). Hussein (Sometimes also transliterated as Hussayn or Hussain) is not a surname in the Western sense but a patronymic, his father's given personal name; Abid al-Majid his grandfather's; al-Tikriti means he was born and raised in (or near) Tikrit. He was commonly referred to as Saddam Hussein, or Saddam for short. The observation that referring to the deposed Iraqi president as only Saddam is derogatory or inappropriate may be based on the assumption that Hussein is a family name: thus, the New York Times refers to him as "Mr. Hussein"1, while Encyclopædia Britannica uses just Saddam 2. A full discussion can be found 3 (Blair Shewchuk, CBC News Online).

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