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Yousaf

#7,172 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yusuf

Yousaf has been given to 239 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #7,172 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Yousaf, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yousaf: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yusuf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yousaf means

Yousaf is a alternate transcription of Yusuf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yusuf.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 239 boys were recorded with the name Yousaf between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,063 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,704 in 2020 to #7,172 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,048 in 2015 to #7,172 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 Yousaf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,172
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yousaf 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yousaf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yousafs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yousaf was born before 2016 — so the typical Yousaf is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
239
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Choose a decade

2010s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Yousaf 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
−357
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,532
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−124
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2023 (20)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,063
2023

Spellings of Yousaf

Yousaf is not the most common spelling — Yusuf is, with 28.5% against Yousaf's 0.60%.

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 Yousaf is used

Across 1910–2025, Yousaf was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,834,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Yousaf has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yousaf around the world

Where Yousaf 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
    #1,007
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2025
    #4,612
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

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

Yousaf by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,172
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,532
Best rank ever
#5,063
2023
Peak year
2023
20 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
239
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Yousaf

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

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Sibling names for Yousaf

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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