Yousif
Yousif was given to 59 boys in 2025, #2,361 among boys’ names; 1,736 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,720 Americans named Yousif and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yousif by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yousif?
#2,361 among boys’ names, 2025
Yousif fell from #1,513 in 2015 to #2,361 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 57.4 to 34.5 per million.
110 babies in 2015, the peak
Yousif peaked in 2015, when 110 boys were given it, #1,513 among boys’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,361 | 34.5 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,207 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,656 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,241 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,107 | 39.4 |
| 2020 | 90 | #1,730 | 52.1 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,935 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,624 | 55.6 |
| 2017 | 86 | #1,791 | 46.5 |
| 2016 | 96 | #1,661 | 50.6 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,513 | 57.4 |
| 2014 | 97 | #1,618 | 50.5 |
| 2013 | 76 | #1,876 | 40.2 |
| 2012 | 80 | #1,847 | 42.2 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,809 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,066 | 34.4 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,524 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,416 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,240 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,080 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,382 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,068 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,839 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #3,014 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,504 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,912 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,528 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,150 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,656 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,178 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,912 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,791 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,212 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,399 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,396 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,597 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,772 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 11 | #4,042 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,544 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yousif a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yousif has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yousif: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yousif, and how old are they?
1,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,736 Americans ever recorded as Yousif. The median Yousif alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 3,506 people named Yousif (9 women and girls, 3,497 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 101 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
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 Yousif born?
The states with the most babies named Yousif are Texas, Michigan and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,758 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 7 | #996 | 4.8× |
| California | 5 | #2,805 | 0.7× |
Where Yousif is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yousif is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1984 it was given 4.8 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 Yousif 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, Yousif is the seventh most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 1,816 babies (3.2%), again the seventh 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 Yousif
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 Yousif and names like it
- Compare Yousif and YusufBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYousif peaked in 2015.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yousif since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Yousif.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yousif alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.