Yousaf — #6632 US boys' name
227 babies named Yousaf in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 53% of names given to boys today.
48% of everyone ever named Yousaf was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Yousaf in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yousaf
The Social Security Administration has registered 227 babies named Yousaf between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yousaf currently holds the #6632 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yousaf performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 110 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Yousaf shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 14 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Yousaf in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yousaf in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 227 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Yousaf at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Yousaf popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1993
- Peak year (2023)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
Currently ranks #6632 among boys.
227 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 20 births in a single year.
Yousaf by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 110 births that decade — 48% of Yousaf's all-time total
Yousaf decade highlights
- Peak decade 110 births
- Runner-up 63 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Yousaf's strongest decade
110 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Yousaf by state
Where Yousaf concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 14 | 6.2% |
| #2 | California | | 5 | 2.2% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 2.2% |
14 of 227 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 6.2% of nationwide
- California 2.2% of nationwide
- Texas 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 6.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1993–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.