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Youssouf

#8,225 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yusuf

Youssouf has been given to 263 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #8,225 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Youssouf, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Youssouf: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yusuf

Arabic

What Youssouf means

Youssouf is a form of Yusuf.

Origin, language, and formation

Youssouf is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yusuf and Joseph.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Youssouf is pronounced /ju.suf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 263 boys were recorded with the name Youssouf between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2018; its best national rank was #5,310 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,565 in 2020 to #8,225 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 Youssouf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,225
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Youssouf 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Youssouf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Youssoufs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Youssouf was born before 2012 — so the typical Youssouf is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
263
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2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Youssouf 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
+1,630
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,340
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2018 (18)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,310
2018

Spellings of Youssouf

Youssouf is not the most common spelling — Youssef is, with 64.8% against Youssouf's 4.6%.

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 Youssouf is used

Across 1910–2025, Youssouf was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 180,052 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000

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. Youssouf has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Youssouf around the world

Where Youssouf 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
    2004–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • France
    1953–2025
    #238
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2023
    #1,627
    in 2023

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.

Youssouf by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,225
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,340
Best rank ever
#5,310
2018
Peak year
2018
18 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
263
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Youssouf

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

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Sibling names for Youssouf

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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