Yussef
Yussef was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,174 among boys’ names; 235 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yussef by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yussef?
#7,174 among boys’ names, 2025
Yussef fell from #6,665 in 2015 to #7,174 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 7.0 per million.
15 babies in 2004, the peak
Yussef peaked in 2004, when 15 boys were given it, #5,480 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,174 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,282 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,712 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,747 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,526 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,713 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,721 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,529 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,587 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,665 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #7,536 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,758 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #7,031 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,243 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,174 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,839 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,380 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #7,069 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,557 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,276 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,480 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,864 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,515 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yussef a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yussef has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yussef: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yussef, and how old are they?
An estimated 233 Americans named Yussef and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 295 people named Yussef (2 women and girls, 293 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 183 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Yussef?
Yussef is a less common spelling of Yusef: SSA has recorded 235 Yussef and 3,116 Yusef since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,782 babies since 1880, Yussef is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 1,694 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Yussef
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 Yussef and names like it
- Compare Yussef and YusefBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYussef peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yussef since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Yussef.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yussef alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.