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Jusuf

#10,167 in 2025Boys' name

To add

Jusuf has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #10,167 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Jusuf, 2025

1 in 474,000

Jusuf over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jusuf: meaning, origin, and history

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Arabic

What Jusuf means

Jusuf means “to add”, associated with hosíf.

Origin, language, and formation

Jusuf is used in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Jusuf comes through Ottoman Turkish یوسف.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph, Jozef, Josif and Josip.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Jusuf is pronounced /jǔsuf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 67 boys were recorded with the name Jusuf between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2009; its best national rank was #10,167 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,263 in 2020 to #10,167 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,373 in 2015 to #10,167 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jusuf?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,167
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jusuf sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jusuf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jusufs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jusuf was born before 2015 — so the typical Jusuf is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
67
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Jusuf rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,096
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,206
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2009 (7)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,167
2025

Spellings of Jusuf

Jusuf is not the most common spelling — Jesus is, with 72.0% against Jusuf's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jusuf around the world

Where Jusuf ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2016
    #4,023
    in 2016
  • France
    2014–2023
    #3,211
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #424
    in 1978

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jusuf by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,167
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,096
Best rank ever
#10,167
2025
Peak year
2009
7 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Jusuf

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JusinJustnYosufJusiahJustunJusitnJustiseJustinnJustianJustoYussufJushuaJususJustyceJustiJustizJustissJustanJussiahJustinoJustinianJusticJushawnJustas

Sibling names for Jusuf

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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