Youssouf
Youssouf was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,225 among boys’ names; 263 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Youssouf by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Youssouf mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Youssouf is “a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Yusuf” Its etymology gives the sense “Joseph” (يُوسُف).
Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf, “Joseph”). Doublet of Joseph.
/ju.suf/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Youssouf?
#8,225 among boys’ names, 2025
Youssouf entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,225 in 2025.
18 babies in 2018, the peak
Youssouf peaked in 2018, when 18 boys were given it, #5,310 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,225 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,855 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,707 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,465 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,755 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,565 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,191 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,310 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,526 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,781 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #6,616 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,629 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 12 | #7,029 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,560 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,345 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,077 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #11,000 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #7,066 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,555 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #7,080 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,175 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,860 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,369 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,378 | 7.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #8,090 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,987 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Youssouf a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Youssouf has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Youssouf: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Youssouf, and how old are they?
An estimated 260 Americans named Youssouf and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 424 people named Youssouf (1 woman or girl, 423 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,060 babies since 1880, Youssouf is the third most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 229 babies (4.4%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Youssouf
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 Youssouf and names like it
- Compare Youssouf and YoussefBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYoussouf peaked in 2018.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Youssouf since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Youssouf: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Youssouf.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Youssouf alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.