Yousef — #766 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yousef

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,654 babies named Yousef between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yousef currently holds the #766 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 331 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yousef performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,713 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yousef shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 831 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Yousef in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yousef 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 6,654 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.