Highest ever

Yusuf

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#450
698 boys
2015
#591
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Yusuf: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 698 in 2025. Its best rank was #450 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Yusuf in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#450 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
698
Since 1880
11,455
Years on record
64

Babies named Yusuf, every year since 1880

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Boys

Yusuf: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 698 boys in 2025. Peak: #450 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 698 (2025).

About the name Yusuf

In 2025, 698 US boys were named Yusuf, making it the 450th most common boys’ name of the year, up 25 places from #475 in 2024. That is 52 more than the 646 boys named Yusuf in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #450, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 698. For comparison, it was #591 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Yusuf in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 11,455 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,357 babies named Yusuf.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,444 US boys were named Yusuf; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 698. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Yusuf ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #178 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Youssef (3,705 babies since 1880), Yosef (10,612 babies since 1880), Yousef (7,008 babies since 1880) and Yusef (3,116 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yusif, Youssouf and Yousaf are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Yusif (414), Youssouf (263), Yousaf (239), Yussuf (237), Yussef (235), Yousof (103), Youcef (96), Yosuf (44), Yosif (37), Yusof (11), Yuseff (11).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Yusuf in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Yusuf by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 27 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New York110#178#325
Minnesota34#198#290
Illinois48#245#468
Pennsylvania47#254#506
Ohio42#297#594
Michigan33#300#422
New Jersey28#312#317
Virginia27#315#442
Massachusetts16#346#621
California81#410#530
Washington18#422#597
Connecticut7#439—
Texas75#454#569
Georgia17#623#736
Maryland8#629#491
Colorado8#678#634
Arizona9#718#1,010
Florida22#726#967
Louisiana6#769—
Tennessee9#773#822
Kentucky5#811#688
North Carolina10#869#1,304
Wisconsin5#884#860
Indiana6#946—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——698#450
2024——646#475
2023——610#494
2022——519#570
2021——507#559
2020——487#573
2019——515#547
2018——488#566
2017——478#571
2016——496#568
2015——468#591
2014——469#588
2013——415#609
2012——384#633
2011——320#716
2010——324#717
2009——297#770
2008——272#808
2007——277#784
2006——211#914
2005——183#958
2004——173#969
2003——161#991
2002——146#1,051
2001——162#954
2000——121#1,151
1999——106#1,211
1998——96#1,270
1997——68#1,534
1996——82#1,333
1995——85#1,274
1994——63#1,515
1993——68#1,419
1992——61#1,504
1991——59#1,501
1990——48#1,701
1989——59#1,432
1988——45#1,617
1987——33#1,937
1986——36#1,758
1985——54#1,320
1984——52#1,293
1983——41#1,515
1982——37#1,653
1981——41#1,518
1980——48#1,377
1979——49#1,339
1978——65#1,086
1977——52#1,244
1976——39#1,452
1975——47#1,257
1974——39#1,387
1973——33#1,513
1972——26#1,770
1971——20#2,125
1970——22#1,937
1969——10#3,059
1968——8#3,361
1967——7#3,555
1965——6#3,926
1964——7#3,598
1961——6#4,061
1960——5#4,596
1949——5#4,202

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).