# Yusuf (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yusuf/  
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 | Yousef, Yousuf |
| US babies named this | 11,455 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11,455 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 12,599, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yoséf). Doublet of Joseph.

## 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 | 320 | 716 |
| 2012 | 384 | 633 |
| 2013 | 415 | 609 |
| 2014 | 469 | 588 |
| 2015 | 468 | 591 |
| 2016 | 496 | 568 |
| 2017 | 478 | 571 |
| 2018 | 488 | 566 |
| 2019 | 515 | 547 |
| 2020 | 487 | 573 |
| 2021 | 507 | 559 |
| 2022 | 519 | 570 |
| 2023 | 610 | 494 |
| 2024 | 646 | 475 |
| 2025 | 698 | 450 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 497 | 128 |
| 2012 | 507 | 126 |
| 2013 | 506 | 118 |
| 2014 | 581 | 105 |
| 2015 | 549 | 115 |
| 2016 | 610 | 108 |
| 2017 | 590 | 108 |
| 2018 | 617 | 105 |
| 2019 | 607 | 105 |
| 2020 | 620 | 93 |
| 2021 | 628 | 94 |
| 2022 | 600 | 93 |
| 2023 | 651 | 79 |
| 2024 | 762 | 67 |
| 2025 | 798 | 64 |

## People named Yusuf

- Yusuf Saad Kamel, Bahraini athletics competitor (born 1983)
- Yusuf II al-Mustansir, Caliph of the Almohads
- Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (1927-1991)
- Yusuf Lule, fourth president of Uganda (1912–1985)
- Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, Arab governor of al-Andalus from 747 to 756
- Yusuf Estes, American Islamic preacher
- An-Nasir Yusuf, Ayyubid ruler 1236-1260 (various)
- Yusuf Gatewood, Canadian actor
- Yusuf Hamdani, Central Asian Sufi teacher (1048/49–1140)
- Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi
- Yusuf Adewunmi, association football player
- Yusuf Al-Rawashdeh, footballer

## 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.