Yousef

What Yousef means

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

Editor’s note Up from #788 in 2015 to #744 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Yousef?

US: Steady: #788 in 2015, #744 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #553 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 349 boys got the name (#744 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 4,894 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,862 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland 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 MI (0.8 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.61 per 1,000 boys), NJ (0.5 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Yousef is #744 in the US and #422 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 Yousef 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
• Yosef413 US · 29 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 Yousef

Boys

• Ali#306“high, exalted”^*
• Ameer#980Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 14 babies
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US
• Abdullah#763“servant of God”^*
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Mustafa#760“the chosen one”^*

For a sister

• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Alia#587Feminine form of Ali, meaning “high, exalted”^*
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*

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