Yusuf

Yusuf is the 5,299th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,350 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,350
Rank: 5,299th
How common: 1 in 47,100
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 77.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 12.9%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Yusuf

Hamza Yusuf (born 1958)American Islamic scholar
Mohammed Yusuf (1970–2009)militant Islamist leader
Alhassan Yusuf (born 2000)Nigerian footballer
Abdulqawi Yusuf (born 1948)Somali judge
Fatima Yusuf (born 1971)Nigerian sprinter
Muhammad Sadik Muhammad Yusuf (1952–2015)Uzbekistan’s first mufti after independence
Sayed Yusuf (1895–1979)Indian field hockey player

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

Also a first name

Yusuf has been given to 11,455 American babies as a first name since 1949, peaking in 2025. 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.