Meaning not yet researched.
Youssef: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,042 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,042 in 2016; #1,562 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Youssef in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,562 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,042.
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Youssef: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,042 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 193 (2017).
In 2025, 110 US boys were named Youssef, making it the 1,562nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 45 places from #1,607 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 107 boys named Youssef in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,042, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 193, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,069 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Youssef in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 3,705 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,582 babies named Youssef.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,399 US boys were named Youssef; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 193. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,528 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Youssef ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #688 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yusuf (11,455 babies since 1880), Yosef (10,612 babies since 1880), Yousef (7,008 babies since 1880) and Yusef (3,116 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Youssef in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 7 | #688 | #822 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #828 | #660 |
| Michigan | 8 | #899 | #629 |
| New York | 12 | #1,050 | #626 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,086 | #514 |
| California | 15 | #1,296 | #988 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,479 | #1,149 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 110 | #1,562 |
| 2024 | — | — | 107 | #1,607 |
| 2023 | — | — | 122 | #1,483 |
| 2022 | — | — | 140 | #1,346 |
| 2021 | — | — | 123 | #1,468 |
| 2020 | — | — | 114 | #1,497 |
| 2019 | — | — | 151 | #1,249 |
| 2018 | — | — | 148 | #1,254 |
| 2017 | — | — | 193 | #1,046 |
| 2016 | — | — | 191 | #1,042 |
| 2015 | — | — | 186 | #1,069 |
| 2014 | — | — | 175 | #1,096 |
| 2013 | — | — | 173 | #1,084 |
| 2012 | — | — | 147 | #1,217 |
| 2011 | — | — | 108 | #1,504 |
| 2010 | — | — | 110 | #1,491 |
| 2009 | — | — | 96 | #1,652 |
| 2008 | — | — | 119 | #1,424 |
| 2007 | — | — | 86 | #1,739 |
| 2006 | — | — | 100 | #1,518 |
| 2005 | — | — | 98 | #1,484 |
| 2004 | — | — | 86 | #1,553 |
| 2003 | — | — | 96 | #1,399 |
| 2002 | — | — | 87 | #1,473 |
| 2001 | — | — | 86 | #1,451 |
| 2000 | — | — | 74 | #1,608 |
| 1999 | — | — | 67 | #1,623 |
| 1998 | — | — | 69 | #1,557 |
| 1997 | — | — | 36 | #2,344 |
| 1996 | — | — | 44 | #2,014 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,398 |
| 1994 | — | — | 34 | #2,346 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,864 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,668 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,752 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,462 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,520 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,255 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,235 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,846 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,692 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,696 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,137 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,997 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,254 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,518 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,489 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,217 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).