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Youssef

#1,562 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yusuf

Youssef has been given to 3,705 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #1,562 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 193 recorded.

Babies named Youssef, 2025

1 in 30,100

Youssef over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Youssef: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yusuf

Arabic

What Youssef means

Youssef is a alternate transcription of Yusuf.

Origin, language, and formation

Youssef is used in English and French. Its origins include Arabic.

Youssef comes through Arabic يُوسِف.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yusuf.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Youssef is pronounced /ju.sɛf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,705 boys were recorded with the name Youssef between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 193 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,042 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,497 in 2020 to #1,562 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,069 in 2015 to #1,562 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 Youssef?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,100
110 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,562
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,891 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Youssef 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,891 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Youssef. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Youssefs were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,705
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (1,582).

Is Youssef 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
+45
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−65
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−493
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.0%
Peak was 2017 (193)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,042
2016

Spellings of Youssef

Youssef is not the most common spelling — Yosef is, with 38.0% against Youssef's 13.3%.

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 Youssef is used

Across 2016–2025, Youssef was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,333 boys, against 1 in 9,276 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 50,000).

230 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 4,545
  3. 3New York1 in 4,762
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 5,556
  5. 5Virginia1 in 5,882
  6. 6Florida1 in 7,143
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 10,000
  8. 8California1 in 12,500

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.

Youssef around the world

Where Youssef 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
    #896
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2022
    #590
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2000–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1946–2025
    #102
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2022
    #457
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #426
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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 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.

Notable people named Youssef

People whose public names include Youssef, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Youssef in other languages

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

YosefYusufFranceYoucefYussufYousuff

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

Youssef by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,562
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 65
Best rank ever
#1,042
2016
Peak year
2017
193 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,705
Count in 2025
110

Names similar to Youssef

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

YousefYousufYousifYounisYounesYusefYoungYoussoufYousafJosefYosefYounusYousofYoucefYussefYossefYounessYoussifJozsefYoungerYousephYousukeYouriJoesef

Names with a curve like Youssef

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

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Sibling names for Youssef

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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