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Yousuf

#1,824 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yusuf

Yousuf has been given to 1,752 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #1,824 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 101 recorded.

Babies named Yousuf, 2025

1 in 37,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yousuf: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yusuf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yousuf means

Yousuf is a alternate transcription of Yusuf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yusuf.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,752 boys were recorded with the name Yousuf between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 101 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,699 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,706 in 2020 to #1,824 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,845 in 2015 to #1,824 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 Yousuf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,824
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yousuf 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yousuf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yousufs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yousuf was born before 2015 — so the typical Yousuf is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,752
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (712).

Is Yousuf 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
−18
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−118
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+21
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.1%
Peak was 2022 (101)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,699
2022

Spellings of Yousuf

Yousuf is not the most common spelling — Yusuf is, with 29.1% against Yousuf's 4.4%.

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 Yousuf is used

Across 2016–2025, Yousuf was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 16,448 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 6,250
  2. 2New York1 in 7,692
  3. 3Michigan1 in 11,111
  4. 4Illinois1 in 12,500
  5. 5Texas1 in 16,667
  6. 6California1 in 20,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 25,000

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.

Yousuf around the world

Where Yousuf 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
    #529
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2025
    #1,535
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Yousuf by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,824
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 118
Best rank ever
#1,699
2022
Peak year
2022
101 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,752
Count in 2025
88

Names similar to Yousuf

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

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Sibling names for Yousuf

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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