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Yousef

#745 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yusuf

Yousef has been given to 7,008 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #745 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 349 recorded.

Babies named Yousef, 2025

1 in 9,500

Yousef over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yousef: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yusuf

Arabic

What Yousef means

Yousef is a form of Yusuf.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), equivalent to English Joseph.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Yousef (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Yousef is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yusuf and Joseph.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,003 boys were recorded with the name Yousef between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 349 in 2025; its best national rank was #725 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #865 in 2020 to #745 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #789 in 2015 to #745 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Yousef between 2018 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2018; its best national rank was #18,060 in 2018.

How common is Yousef?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,500
349 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,890
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#745
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,585 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yousef 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,585 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yousef. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yousefs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yousef was born before 2014 — so the typical Yousef is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,003
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (2,713).

Is Yousef 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
+22
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+120
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+44
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (349)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#725
2017

Spellings of Yousef

Yousef is not the most common spelling — Yusuf is, with 23.3% against Yousef's 14.2%.

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 Yousef is used

Across 2016–2025, Yousef was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 1,818 boys, against 1 in 5,090 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

255 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 1,818
  2. 2Illinois1 in 2,041
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 2,222
  4. 4Virginia1 in 2,703
  5. 5New York1 in 2,941
  6. 6Ohio1 in 3,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 5,000
  8. 8California1 in 5,882

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.

Geographically, Yousef is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 92% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Yousef around the world

Where Yousef 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
    #422
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2013
    #398
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    1991–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1949–2025
    #1,541
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #221
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #423
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yousef in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Yousef. Linked forms have their own page here.

FranceYoucefYussufYoussefYusuphYousuff

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Yousef by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#745
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 120
Best rank ever
#725
2017
Peak year
2025
349 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,003
Count in 2025
349

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#18,060
2018
Peak year
2018
5 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yousef

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

YoussefYousufYousifJosefYounisYounesYosefYusefYoungYousafYounusYousofYoucefYussefYoussoufYossefJozsefYounessYoussifYouriYoungerJoesefYousephYouel

Names with a curve like Yousef

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yousef, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AmeerJerichoCanaanBridgerKyreeZaidLangstonMordechaiKyeCainArianAnders

Sibling names for Yousef

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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