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Yusif

#5,843 in 2025Boys' name

May he add, through יוסף

Yusif has been given to 414 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,843 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Yusif, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yusif: meaning, origin, and history

May he add, through יוסף

Arabic and Hebrew

What Yusif means

Yusif belongs to the name family reached through Yusif → יוסף. Its meaning is “may he add”.

Origin, language, and formation

Yusif is used in Azerbaijani. Its origins include Arabic and Hebrew.

Yusif comes through Hebrew יוסף.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph and יוסף.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 414 boys were recorded with the name Yusif between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,985 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,607 in 2020 to #5,843 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,498 in 2015 to #5,843 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 Yusif?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,843
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yusif 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yusif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yusifs were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
414
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (196).

Is Yusif 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
−787
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+764
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−345
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.3%
Peak was 2016 (27)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,985
2016

Spellings of Yusif

Yusif is not the most common spelling — Yusuf is, with 25.0% against Yusif's 0.90%.

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 Yusif is used

Across 1910–2025, Yusif was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 493,476 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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

Yusif around the world

Where Yusif 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
    2000–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2014
    #5,929
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2010–2023
    #3,103
    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.

Yusif by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,843
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 764
Best rank ever
#3,985
2016
Peak year
2016
27 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
414
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Yusif

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

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Sibling names for Yusif

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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