# Youssef (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/youssef/  
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 | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Yousaf, Yousef, Yousuf |
| US babies named this | 3,705 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,705 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 784, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يُوسِف (yūsif).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 108 | 1,504 |
| 2012 | 147 | 1,217 |
| 2013 | 173 | 1,084 |
| 2014 | 175 | 1,096 |
| 2015 | 186 | 1,069 |
| 2016 | 191 | 1,042 |
| 2017 | 193 | 1,046 |
| 2018 | 148 | 1,254 |
| 2019 | 151 | 1,249 |
| 2020 | 114 | 1,497 |
| 2021 | 123 | 1,468 |
| 2022 | 140 | 1,346 |
| 2023 | 122 | 1,483 |
| 2024 | 107 | 1,607 |
| 2025 | 110 | 1,562 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,087 |
| 2012 | 22 | 1,191 |
| 2013 | 34 | 872 |
| 2014 | 28 | 1,012 |
| 2015 | 38 | 821 |
| 2016 | 45 | 748 |
| 2017 | 40 | 806 |
| 2018 | 41 | 786 |
| 2019 | 40 | 787 |
| 2020 | 39 | 796 |
| 2021 | 33 | 907 |
| 2022 | 34 | 901 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 24 | 1,162 |
| 2025 | 35 | 896 |

## People named Youssef

- Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (1926–2008)
- Youssef El Akchaoui, Dutch footballer
- Youssef Adnane, French football player
- Youssef Wahbi, Egyptian film director and actor (1902–1982)
- Youssef Toutouh, Danish footballer
- Youssef El Kachati, Dutch-Moroccan association football player (1999-)
- Youssef Haraoui, Algerian footballer
- Youssef Chaban, Egyptian actor (1931–2021)
- Youssef Nabil, Egyptian photographer and artist (born 1972)
- Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf, Chaldean bishop (1940-2009)
- Youssef Selim, Egyptian diver
- Youssef Boutros Ghali, Egyptian economist and politician

## 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.