Yusuf

Meaning: Increases
Origin: Arabic (from Hebrew)

Boy's name · #450 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Yusuf is climbing: on the charts since 1949, it reached #450 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 700 boys given the name last year. Roughly 11,000 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

See where Yusuf is more common.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 25 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

Yusuf is especially popular in Türkiye.

#4 in Türkiye (2025) · #12 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #65 in England & Wales (2025) · #144 in Austria (2025) · #155 in Netherlands (2025) · #164 in Belgium (2025) · #175 in Sweden (2025) · #206 in Norway (2025) · #216 in France (2025) · #217 in Scotland (2025) · #307 in Ireland (2025) · #354 in Poland (2025) and 3 more.

Famous Yusufs

Yusuf Raza Gilani — Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012
Yusuf al-Qaradawi — Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar (1926–2022)
Yusuf Yazıcı — Turkish association football player (born 1997)
Yusuf Demir — Turkish-Austrian association football player (born 2003)
Yusuf Dikeç — Turkish sport shooter (born 1973)

In stories & tradition

Yusuf Tazim^tr — Assassin's Creed: Revelations (book)
Yusuf Amir — Grand Theft Auto HD
Yusuf — Inception (film)

What Yusufs become

Among 907 notable people named Yusuf:

Political leaders appear 1.97× more often than among typical names — e.g. Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistani politician (born 1952).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Yousef (#745), Youssef (#1562), and Yousuf (#1824), Yusuf would rank around #277 with about 1,200 births last year — the newborns split about 56/28/9/7 across Yusuf, Yousef, Youssef, and Yousuf.

Similar names: Mustafa · Yehuda · Sylas · Idris · Ibrahim · Yousef

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