Youssef
About 3,705 American babies have been named Youssef since 1974, most of them around 2017. In 2025 it ranked 1,554th. About 3,700 Youssefs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Youssef
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,705
- Estimated living today
- 3,700
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 1,042nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,554th
- First recorded
- 1974
How old the living Youssefs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,705 babies given the name since 1974, about 3,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Borrowed from Arabic يُوسِف.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Youssefs
- Youssef En-Nesyri (born 1997)Moroccan association football player
- Youssef ibn Tashfin (1009–1106)leader of the Almoravid dynasty (r. 1061–1106), founder of Marrakech and a key figure in consolidating power in southern Morocco before expanding into Al-Andalus
- Youssef Chahine (1926–2008)Egyptian film director
- Youssef Msakni (born 1990)Tunisian association football player
- Youssef El-Arabi (born 1987)Moroccan footballer
- Youssef Aït Bennasser (born 1996)Moroccan and French footballer
- Youssef Chahed (born 1975)Tunisian politician
- Youssef Amyn (born 2003)Iraq association football player
People named Youssef with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Youssef is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Youssef is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.4×), Florida (3.2×), New York (3.0×), Virginia (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Youssef peaked:
Youssef elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Youssef | 22,705 | 67th |
| Italy boys | Youssef | 6,769 | — |
| Belgium boys | Youssef | 3,098 | 38th |
| Spain boys | Youssef | 2,833 | 84th |
| England and Wales boys | Youssef | 784 | 748th |
| Switzerland boys | Youssef | 259 | 362nd |
| Norway boys | Youssef | 216 | 289th |
| Ireland boys | Youssef | 59 | 448th |
| Poland boys | Youssef | 56 birth registrations | 383rd |
| Scotland boys | Youssef | 20 | 595th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Youssef: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Youssef | 103 | 0.008% | 443rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Youssef | 154 | 0.035% | 139th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Youssef | 2 | 0.003% | 173rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Youssef is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.05% of children were given it – 51 of them.
Youssef: rank by region
In 2025, Youssef was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Youssef | 127 | 46 |
| Wallonia | Youssef | 152 | 19 |
| Brussels | Youssef | 29 | 24 |
In 2024, Youssef was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Youssef | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Youssef was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Youssef | 269 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Youssef appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (29th), Province of Antwerp (51st), Province of Liège (71st), Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd) and Province of East Flanders (226th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Youssef by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 153 | 117th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Youssef among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Youssef | 2,227 | 2,334 |
| Finland boys | Youssef | 113 | 137 |
| the Netherlands girls | Youssef | — | 11 |
| Finland girls | Youssef | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Youssef lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 22,761 men called Youssef were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Youssef | 164 | 3.747 | 56 |
| Almería | Youssef | 1,427 | 3.628 | 48 |
| Murcia | Youssef | 2,094 | 2.634 | 67 |
| Ceuta | Youssef | 103 | 2.444 | 82 |
| Tarragona | Youssef | 1,056 | 2.409 | 81 |
| Girona | Youssef | 944 | 2.267 | 82 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Youssef against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.