Yusef
Yusef was given to 83 boys in 2025, #1,904 among boys’ names; 3,116 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,000 Americans named Yusef and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yusef by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yusef?
#1,904 among boys’ names, 2025
Yusef rose from #1,952 in 2015 to #1,904 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 39.1 to 48.6 per million.
104 babies in 2024, the peak
Yusef peaked in 2024, when 104 boys were given it, #1,640 among boys’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,904 | 48.6 |
| 2024 | 104 | #1,640 | 60.4 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,274 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,148 | 39.5 |
| 2021 | 55 | #2,461 | 31.4 |
| 2020 | 53 | #2,464 | 30.7 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,487 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,208 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,267 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,476 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #1,952 | 39.1 |
| 2014 | 76 | #1,918 | 39.6 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,332 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,033 | 36.4 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,965 | 37.4 |
| 2010 | 80 | #1,831 | 41.7 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,033 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 82 | #1,812 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 88 | #1,720 | 42.4 |
| 2006 | 81 | #1,737 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,962 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,158 | 27.7 |
| 2003 | 44 | #2,422 | 22.3 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,938 | 29.9 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,022 | 27.3 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,009 | 26.0 |
| 1999 | 51 | #1,928 | 26.6 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,064 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 50 | #1,885 | 26.5 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,759 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,835 | 25.2 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,710 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 51 | #1,715 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,836 | 22.5 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,790 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 53 | #1,581 | 25.8 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,760 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,663 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,718 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,222 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,069 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,840 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 27 | #2,015 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 46 | #1,412 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 45 | #1,431 | 25.1 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,654 | 20.2 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,568 | 22.1 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,437 | 26.2 |
| 1977 | 43 | #1,406 | 26.2 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,162 | 35.1 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,302 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 37 | #1,438 | 23.5 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,146 | 33.4 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,097 | 34.5 |
| 1971 | 42 | #1,308 | 23.7 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,237 | 24.8 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,765 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,573 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,972 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,246 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,777 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,543 | 6.0 |
| 1962 | 9 | #3,037 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yusef a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yusef has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yusef: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yusef, and how old are they?
3,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,116 Americans ever recorded as Yusef. The median Yusef alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,485 people named Yusef (10 women and girls, 2,475 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,618 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 503 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 626 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 997 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 855 |
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 Yusef born?
The states with the most babies named Yusef are New York, California and Texas, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,199 | 2.2× |
| California | 8 | #1,993 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,075 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 8 | #900 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,432 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,096 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,072 | 0.1× |
Where Yusef is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yusef is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1962 it was given 2.5 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 Yusef 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, Yusef is the fifth most given (7.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 1,816 babies (4.6%), the sixth 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 Yusef
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 Yusef and names like it
- Compare Yusef and YusufBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYusef peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yusef since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yusef.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yusef alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.