Youssef

Youssef is the 5,830th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,712 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 52,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,712
Rank: 5,830th
How common: 1 in 52,300
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Borrowed from Arabic يُوسِف.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Youssef described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Youssef

Bassem Youssef (born 1974)Egyptian doctor and satirist
Dhafer Youssef (born 1967)Tunisian musician
Ramy Youssef (born 1991)American stand-up comedian
Ismail Youssef (born 1964)Egyptian footballer
Rose El Youssef (1898–1958)Lebanese born Egyptian actress

People named Youssef with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Youssef

Also a first name

Youssef has been given to 3,705 American babies as a first name since 1974, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.