How rare is the name Yousef?

6,930 people in the United States have the first name Yousef, about 1 in 43,583. It ranks #3,146 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

YOUSEF

#3,146

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,930
About
1 in 43,583
This common or more
81.8%
Who bears it

Of the 6,930 people named Yousef, 82.5% reported their origin as White, 7.1% as two or more races and 4.3% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Yousef peaked in 2025, when 349 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19702025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
349
In 2025*
349
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 7,008 babies have been given the name since 1970. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Yousef by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #1,718. The largest share of babies named Yousef, 54.9%, were born in 2013 or later.

1970s#11,93750
1980s#4,572326
1990s#3,472681
2000s#2,5281,482
2010s#1,7962,718
2020s#1,7181,751
Generation X 1965–801.1%
Millennials 1981–969.9%
Generation Z 1997–1234.1%
2013 and later54.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Yousef is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Yousef has been most common in New Jersey (2.9×), Michigan (2.4×), and Virginia (2.2×), and least common in Missouri (0.33×).

5,451 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Yousef

1 other first name also has 6,930 people.

#3,146 Ferdinand · 6,930

Either side of Yousef

#3,145 Anders · 6,937#3,146 Ferdinand · 6,930#3,148 Misti · 6,928#3,149 Amado · 6,919

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Yousef, most common first.

#2,876 Yosef · 7,990#3,650 Youssef · 5,589#5,032 Yousif · 3,506#8,196 Yousuf · 1,779#24,570 Yousaf · 391#29,211 Youcef · 304#29,411 Yossef · 301

Also a last name

As a last name, Yousef ranks #10,125 of 156,621, with 3,034 people. See Yousef as a last name

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