Meaning not yet researched.
Yusef: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,097 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,097 in 1972; #1,904 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yusef in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,904 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #1,097.
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Yusef: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,097 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 104 (2024).
In 2025, 83 US boys were named Yusef, making it the 1,904th most common boys’ name of the year, down 264 places from #1,640 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 104 boys named Yusef in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,097, reached in 1972. The most boys given the name in a single year was 104, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,952 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yusef in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 9 babies. In all, 3,116 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 654 babies named Yusef.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 655 US boys were named Yusef; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 104. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,579 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yusef ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #900 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 Youssef (3,705 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 Yusef 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #900 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,072 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,199 | #1,158 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,432 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,993 | #1,535 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,075 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,096 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 83 | #1,904 |
| 2024 | — | — | 104 | #1,640 |
| 2023 | — | — | 63 | #2,275 |
| 2022 | — | — | 69 | #2,149 |
| 2021 | — | — | 55 | #2,462 |
| 2020 | — | — | 53 | #2,465 |
| 2019 | — | — | 54 | #2,488 |
| 2018 | — | — | 63 | #2,209 |
| 2017 | — | — | 59 | #2,268 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,476 |
| 2015 | — | — | 75 | #1,952 |
| 2014 | — | — | 76 | #1,919 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,333 |
| 2012 | — | — | 69 | #2,034 |
| 2011 | — | — | 71 | #1,966 |
| 2010 | — | — | 80 | #1,832 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,034 |
| 2008 | — | — | 82 | #1,812 |
| 2007 | — | — | 88 | #1,720 |
| 2006 | — | — | 81 | #1,737 |
| 2005 | — | — | 65 | #1,966 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,162 |
| 2003 | — | — | 44 | #2,426 |
| 2002 | — | — | 58 | #1,942 |
| 2001 | — | — | 53 | #2,026 |
| 2000 | — | — | 51 | #2,013 |
| 1999 | — | — | 51 | #1,931 |
| 1998 | — | — | 46 | #2,067 |
| 1997 | — | — | 50 | #1,888 |
| 1996 | — | — | 53 | #1,763 |
| 1995 | — | — | 48 | #1,840 |
| 1994 | — | — | 53 | #1,715 |
| 1993 | — | — | 51 | #1,720 |
| 1992 | — | — | 45 | #1,841 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,796 |
| 1990 | — | — | 53 | #1,586 |
| 1989 | — | — | 44 | #1,765 |
| 1988 | — | — | 43 | #1,668 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,722 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,224 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,070 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,841 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #2,016 |
| 1982 | — | — | 46 | #1,413 |
| 1981 | — | — | 45 | #1,432 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,654 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,568 |
| 1978 | — | — | 43 | #1,437 |
| 1977 | — | — | 43 | #1,406 |
| 1976 | — | — | 55 | #1,162 |
| 1975 | — | — | 45 | #1,302 |
| 1974 | — | — | 37 | #1,438 |
| 1973 | — | — | 52 | #1,146 |
| 1972 | — | — | 56 | #1,097 |
| 1971 | — | — | 42 | #1,308 |
| 1970 | — | — | 46 | #1,237 |
| 1969 | — | — | 23 | #1,766 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,574 |
| 1967 | — | — | 17 | #1,973 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,247 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,778 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,544 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #3,038 |
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).