Yusuf
Yusuf was given to 698 boys in 2025, #450 among boys’ names; 11,455 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Yusuf and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yusuf by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yusuf mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yusuf is “a male given name from Arabic, of Muslim usage.”
Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yoséf). Doublet of Joseph.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yusuf?
#450 among boys’ names, 2025
Yusuf rose from #591 in 2015 to #450 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.24 to 0.41 per 1,000.
698 babies in 2025, the peak
Yusuf peaked in 2025, when 698 boys were given it, #450 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 646 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 698 | #450 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 646 | #475 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 610 | #494 | 0.36 |
| 2022 | 519 | #570 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 507 | #559 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 487 | #573 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 515 | #547 | 0.29 |
| 2018 | 488 | #566 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 478 | #571 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 496 | #568 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 468 | #591 | 0.24 |
| 2014 | 469 | #588 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 415 | #609 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 384 | #633 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 320 | #716 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 324 | #717 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 297 | #770 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 272 | #808 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 277 | #784 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 211 | #914 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 183 | #957 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 173 | #968 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 161 | #990 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 146 | #1,050 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 162 | #953 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,149 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,209 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,267 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 68 | #1,531 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,331 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,269 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 63 | #1,510 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 68 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 61 | #1,499 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 59 | #1,495 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 48 | #1,696 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 59 | #1,427 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,612 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 54 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,514 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 37 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 41 | #1,517 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 48 | #1,377 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 49 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 39 | #1,452 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,257 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 39 | #1,387 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 33 | #1,513 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,770 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,936 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,058 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #4,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,200 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yusuf a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yusuf has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yusuf: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yusuf, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,455 Americans ever recorded as Yusuf. The median Yusuf alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 8,933 people named Yusuf (26 women and girls, 8,907 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,985 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 425 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 823 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,750 |
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 Yusuf born?
The states with the most babies named Yusuf are New York, California and Texas, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 110 | #178 | 2.3× |
| California | 81 | #410 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 75 | #454 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 48 | #245 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | #254 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 42 | #297 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 34 | #198 | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 33 | #300 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 28 | #312 | 2.0× |
| Virginia | 27 | #315 | 1.5× |
Where Yusuf is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yusuf is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1949 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 Yusuf 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 36,332 babies since 1880, Yusuf is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 698 of their 1,718 babies (41%), again the 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 Yusuf
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 Yusuf and names like it
- Compare Yusuf and YosefBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYusuf peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yusuf since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yusuf.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yusuf alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.