Yusuf
Yusuf reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 449, and has been recorded 11,455 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 449th. About 11,000 Yusufs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Yusuf
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,455
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 449th
- Rank in 2025
- 449th
- First recorded
- 1949
How old the living Yusufs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,455 babies given the name since 1949, about 11,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 8,300 of them are children and 7 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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
Origin Arabic
from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Yusufs
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926–2022)Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar
- Yusuf Raza Gilani (born 1952)Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012
- Yusuf Yazıcı (born 1997)Turkish association football player
- Yusuf Demir (born 2003)Turkish-Austrian association football player
- Yusuf Khass Hajib (1017–1075)Turkic poet
- Yusuf Dikeç (born 1973)Turkish sport shooter
- Yusuf Akçura (1876–1935)Turkish historian and writer
- Yusuf Saad Kamel (born 1983)athletics competitor
People named Yusuf with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Yusuf is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yusuf is most concentrated in Minnesota (3.0×), New Jersey (2.4×), New York (2.2×), Virginia (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Yusuf peaked:
Yusuf elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Yusuf | 12,599 | 64th |
| France boys | Yusuf +2 spellings | 5,055 | 216th |
| Belgium boys | Yusuf | 1,588 | 148th |
| Norway boys | Yusuf | 725 | 161st |
| Switzerland boys | Yusuf | 455 | 281st |
| Italy boys | Yusuf | 306 | — |
| Scotland boys | Yusuf | 284 | 199th |
| Ireland boys | Yusuf | 142 | 254th |
| Poland boys | Yusuf | 60 birth registrations | 313th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Yusuf | 12 | 312th |
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.
Yusuf: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Yusuf | 394 | 0.032% | 231st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Yusuf | 52 | 0.012% | 376th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Yusuf | 9 | 0.014% | 109th |
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, Yusuf is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.09% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Yusuf: rank by region
In 2025, Yusuf was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Yusuf | 116 | 51 |
| Wallonia | Yusuf | 298 | 9 |
| Brussels | Yusuf | 225 | 6 |
In 2025, Yusuf was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Yusuf | 243 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Yusuf | 312 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Yusuf appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (76th), Province of Antwerp (79th), Province of East Flanders (106th), Province of West Flanders (162nd), Province of Liège (183rd) and Brussels-Capital Region (225th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Yusuf by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 350 | 65th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Yusuf 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 | Yusuf | 1,902 | 2,403 |
| Finland boys | Yusuf | 359 | 544 |
| Finland girls | Yusuf | — | 160 |
| the Netherlands girls | Yusuf | — | 36 |
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 Yusuf lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 373 men called Yusuf 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 | Yusuf | 13 | 0.297 | 408 |
| Girona | Yusuf | 44 | 0.106 | 727 |
| Huesca | Yusuf | 5 | 0.043 | 1,362 |
| Zaragoza | Yusuf | 16 | 0.033 | 1,590 |
| Granada | Yusuf | 15 | 0.032 | 1,348 |
| Barcelona | Yusuf | 80 | 0.027 | 1,820 |
Listed in 18 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 34 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Yusuf against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.