Youssef — #1600 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Youssef

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,593 babies named Youssef between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Youssef currently holds the #1600 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 193 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Youssef performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,582 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Youssef shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 569 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Youssef in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Youssef 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 3,593 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.