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Yusef

#1,904 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yousef

Yusef has been given to 3,116 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #1,904 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Yusef, 2025

1 in 39,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yusef: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yousef

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yusef means

Yusef is a alternate transcription of Yousef.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yousef.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,116 boys were recorded with the name Yusef between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,097 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,464 in 2020 to #1,904 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,952 in 2015 to #1,904 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 Yusef?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,900
83 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,904
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,687 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yusef 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 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yusef. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yusefs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yusef was born before 2003 — so the typical Yusef is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,116
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (654).

Is Yusef 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
−264
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+560
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+48
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.8%
Peak was 2024 (104)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,097
1972

Spellings of Yusef

Yusef is not the most common spelling — Yusuf is, with 23.2% against Yusef's 6.3%.

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 Yusef is used

Across 2016–2025, Yusef was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 24,621 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 25,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 50,000

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.

Yusef around the world

Where Yusef 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
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2008
    #474
    in 2008
  • France
    2018–2023
    #4,271
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #916
    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.

Notable people named Yusef

People whose public names include Yusef, 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.

Yusef by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,904
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 560
Best rank ever
#1,097
1972
Peak year
2024
104 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,116
Count in 2025
83

Names similar to Yusef

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

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Names with a curve like Yusef

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

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Sibling names for Yusef

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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