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Youcef

#13,855 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yusuf

Youcef has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #13,855 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Youcef, 2025

1 in 663,000

Youcef over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Youcef: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yusuf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Youcef means

Youcef is a alternate transcription of Yusuf.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Youcef is used in Arabic (Maghrebi).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yusuf.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 boys were recorded with the name Youcef between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2012; its best national rank was #8,124 in 2012.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,048 in 2015 to #13,855 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.

How common is Youcef?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,855
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Youcef 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Youcef. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Youcefs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Youcef was born before 2013 — so the typical Youcef is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
96
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Choose a decade

2010s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Youcef 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
−1,552
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,807
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2012 (10)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,124
2012

Spellings of Youcef

Youcef is not the most common spelling — Yosef is, with 37.0% against Youcef's 0.33%.

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.

Youcef around the world

Where Youcef 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
    1996–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2006–2013
    #711
    in 2013
  • France
    1948–2025
    #422
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Youcef by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,855
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,124
2012
Peak year
2012
10 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Youcef

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

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Sibling names for Youcef

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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