Yossi

#2,388 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Yossi has been given to 584 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #2,388 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Yossi, 2025

1 in 57,200

Yossi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Yossi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 29,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,388
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yossi 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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yossi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yossis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yossi was born before 2018 — so the typical Yossi is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
584
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (263).

Is Yossi 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
+524
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,177
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,490
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.90×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (58)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,388
2025

Spellings of Yossi

Yossi is not the most common spelling — Ross is, with 79.6% against Yossi's 0.57%.

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.

Where Yossi is used

Across 1910–2025, Yossi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 45,434 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yossi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yossi around the world

Where Yossi 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
    1999–2025
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2024
    #6,616
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yossi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,388
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,177
Best rank ever
#2,388
2025
Peak year
2025
58 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
584
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Yossi

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Sibling names for Yossi

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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