How Many People Are Named Yusef?

3,004

people named Yusef are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 113,776 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,116 babies named Yusef in Social Security records from 1962 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,167

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,933

See the top 100

Peak Year

2024

104 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Arabic
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant transcription of YUSUF.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Yusef in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Yusef alive today is about 25 years old, and 63% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 37 in 2025.

Under 30 1,905
63.4%
30 to 59 1,074
35.8%
60 and over 25
0.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Yusef first appears in the records in 1962 and was given most often in 2024, to 104 babies. In 2025, 83 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1962 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Yusef has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,097, in 1972. In 2025 it ranked #1,904.

Boys
Rank in 2025#1,904
Best rank#1,097 (1972)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,124 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Yusef alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Yusef were born in New York than in any other state: about 439 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Yusef was given 5.6 times as often in New Jersey, 4.6 times in New York and 1.8 times in California.

New York 439
California 351
New Jersey 217
Pennsylvania 91
Florida 86
Texas 75
Illinois 57
Michigan 51
Virginia 45
Georgia 15
North Carolina 11
Ohio 10
Maryland 5
Indiana 5
Connecticut 5

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