Yosef

What Yosef means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Yosef yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #708 in 2015 to #663 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Yosef?

US: Steady: #708 in 2015, #663 now. England & Wales: Steady: #1024 in 2015, #1035 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 470 boys got the name (#606 that year). First in the US records in 1951.

How common

• About 1 in 4,136 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,377 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (2.94 per 1,000 boys), NY (2.12 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.61 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Yosef is #663 in the US and #1035 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Yosef were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Yusuf698 US · 798 E&W
• Yousef349 US · 95 E&W
• Yousuf88 US · 73 E&W
• Youssef110 US · 35 E&W
• Yusef83 US · 29 E&W
• Yousif59 US · 31 E&W
• Yousaf12 US · 30 E&W
• Yusif16 US · 7 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Yosef

Boys

• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Avi#832“father”^*

For a sister

• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025
• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Yosef’s. Rank is US 2025.