Yousef
Yousef was given to 349 boys in 2025, #745 among boys’ names; 7,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,910 Americans named Yousef and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yousef by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yousef mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yousef is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), equivalent to English Joseph.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yousef?
#745 among boys’ names, 2025
Yousef rose from #789 in 2015 to #745 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.15 to 0.20 per 1,000.
349 babies in 2025, the peak
Yousef peaked in 2025, when 349 boys were given it, #745 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 331 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 349 | #745 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 331 | #767 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 297 | #826 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 255 | #907 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 257 | #896 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 262 | #865 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 312 | #763 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 286 | #793 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 330 | #725 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 309 | #775 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 296 | #789 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 307 | #765 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 251 | #855 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 235 | #892 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 188 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 199 | #993 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 184 | #1,042 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 177 | #1,066 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 146 | #1,214 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,366 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 153 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 152 | #1,059 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,208 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 156 | #1,001 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,107 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 144 | #1,018 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,232 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 110 | #1,142 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,464 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,397 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 65 | #1,485 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 70 | #1,404 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 54 | #1,656 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 46 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 49 | #1,519 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,958 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 36 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,976 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,862 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,829 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,993 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,563 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,851 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,073 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #6,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,646 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,425 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yousef a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yousef has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yousef: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yousef, and how old are they?
6,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,008 Americans ever recorded as Yousef. The median Yousef alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 6,930 people named Yousef (13 women and girls, 6,917 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,254 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 68 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 664 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,820 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Yousef born?
The states with the most babies named Yousef are California, New York and Texas, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 35 | #753 | 1.0× |
| New York | 33 | #499 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 32 | #843 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 32 | #306 | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 30 | #362 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 25 | #660 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 22 | #498 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #410 | 2.3× |
| Virginia | 14 | #561 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #660 | 0.6× |
Where Yousef is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yousef is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1970 it was given 2.3 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 Yousef 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,798 babies since 1880, Yousef is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 349 of their 1,816 babies (19%), again the third 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 Yousef
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 Yousef and names like it
- Compare Yousef and YusufBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYousef peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yousef since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Yousef: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yousef.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yousef alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.