Yousuf
Yousuf was given to 88 boys in 2025, #1,824 among boys’ names; 1,752 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Yousuf and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yousuf by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yousuf?
#1,824 among boys’ names, 2025
Yousuf rose from #1,845 in 2015 to #1,824 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 42.3 to 51.5 per million.
101 babies in 2022, the peak
Yousuf peaked in 2022, when 101 boys were given it, #1,699 among boys’ names. The 88 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #1,824 | 51.5 |
| 2024 | 91 | #1,806 | 52.8 |
| 2023 | 84 | #1,895 | 49.1 |
| 2022 | 101 | #1,699 | 57.8 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,057 | 41.2 |
| 2020 | 92 | #1,706 | 53.3 |
| 2019 | 90 | #1,753 | 50.2 |
| 2018 | 82 | #1,853 | 45.2 |
| 2017 | 75 | #1,934 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 81 | #1,861 | 42.7 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,845 | 42.3 |
| 2014 | 80 | #1,856 | 41.6 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,222 | 31.2 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,170 | 32.7 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,373 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,576 | 25.0 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,220 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,679 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,307 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,218 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,607 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,233 | 26.2 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,775 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #3,015 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,054 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,856 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,369 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,535 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,276 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,869 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,268 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,439 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,759 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,221 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,924 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,361 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,203 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,438 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,443 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,223 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yousuf a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yousuf has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yousuf: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yousuf, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,752 Americans ever recorded as Yousuf. The median Yousuf alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,779 people named Yousuf (8 women and girls, 1,771 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 104 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 559 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,070 |
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 Yousuf born?
The states with the most babies named Yousuf are New York, Texas and California, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #992 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,480 | 0.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,200 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,275 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,018 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,093 | 0.1× |
Where Yousuf is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yousuf is most over-represented in New York: since 1983 it was given 1.8 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 Yousuf 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, Yousuf is the sixth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 1,816 babies (4.8%), the fifth 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 Yousuf
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 Yousuf and names like it
- Compare Yousuf and YusufBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYousuf peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yousuf since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Yousuf.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yousuf alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.