# Youcef (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/youcef/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 96 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 96 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 314, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | 12,457 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,919 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,514 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,450 |
| 2011 | 9 | 8,743 |
| 2012 | 10 | 8,130 |
| 2013 | 6 | 12,085 |
| 2014 | 6 | 12,069 |
| 2015 | 6 | 12,054 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,708 |
| 2017 | 5 | 14,194 |
| 2019 | 6 | 12,098 |
| 2022 | 6 | 12,285 |
| 2024 | 6 | 12,308 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,859 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 16 | 1,507 |
| 2013 | 14 | 1,617 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,319 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1,903 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,655 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Youcef

- Youcef Atal, Algerian association football player
- Youcef Belaïli, Algerian and French footballer
- Youcef Reguigui, Algerian cyclist
- Youcef Abdi, Australian middle distance runner
- Youcef Dris, Algerian writer and journalist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.