Yossi
Yossi was given to 58 boys in 2025, #2,388 among boys’ names; 584 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yossi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yossi?
#2,388 among boys’ names, 2025
Yossi rose from #4,878 in 2015 to #2,388 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 34.0 per million.
58 babies in 2025, the peak
Yossi peaked in 2025, when 58 boys were given it, #2,388 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 44 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,388 | 34.0 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,912 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 49 | #2,690 | 28.6 |
| 2022 | 46 | #2,826 | 26.3 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,356 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,565 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,326 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,700 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,739 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,772 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,878 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,130 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,306 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,853 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,928 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,838 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,291 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,506 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,894 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,617 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,904 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,228 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,632 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,213 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,318 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,569 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,680 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,090 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yossi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yossi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yossi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yossi, and how old are they?
An estimated 579 Americans named Yossi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 712 people named Yossi (27 women and girls, 685 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 326 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Yossi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 47 | #381 | 10.8× |
Where Yossi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yossi is most over-represented in New York: since 1990 it was given 10.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yossi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 638 babies since 1880, Yossi is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 58 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yossi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yossi and names like it
- Compare Yossi and YuseiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYossi peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yossi since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yossi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yossi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.