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Yusuf

#450 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yosef

Yusuf has been given to 11,455 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #450 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 698 recorded.

Babies named Yusuf, 2025

1 in 4,750

Yusuf over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yusuf: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yosef

Arabic

What Yusuf means

Yusuf is a form of Yosef.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yoséf). Doublet of Joseph.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Yusuf (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Yusuf is used in English, Indonesian, Malay and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Yusuf comes through Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yosef and Joseph.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Yusuf is pronounced /ˈjusuf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,455 boys were recorded with the name Yusuf between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 698 in 2025; its best national rank was #450 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #573 in 2020 to #450 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #591 in 2015 to #450 in 2025.

How common is Yusuf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,750
698 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,450
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#450
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,293 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yusuf 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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,293 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yusuf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yusufs were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,450
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (4,357).

Is Yusuf 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
+25
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+123
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+141
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.49×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (698)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#450
2025

Spellings of Yusuf

Yusuf is the most-used spelling, taking 30.9% of the 37,043 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Yusuf is used

Across 2016–2025, Yusuf was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 935 boys, against 1 in 2,778 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 50,000).

2107 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 935
  2. 2New York1 in 1,064
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 1,471
  4. 4Virginia1 in 1,471
  5. 5Michigan1 in 1,667
  6. 6Illinois1 in 1,695
  7. 7Maryland1 in 1,887
  8. 8Ohio1 in 2,041

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.

Geographically, Yusuf is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 91% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Yusuf around the world

Where Yusuf 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
    #64
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–2025
    #208
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2019
    #312
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    1998–2025
    #286
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #216
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #199
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #147
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1972–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 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, NISRA 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 Yusuf

People whose public names include Yusuf, 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.

Yusuf in other languages

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

FranceYoucefYussufYoussefYusuphYousuff

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

Yusuf by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#450
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 123
Best rank ever
#450
2025
Peak year
2025
698 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,455
Count in 2025
698

Names similar to Yusuf

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

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Names with a curve like Yusuf

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

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Sibling names for Yusuf

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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