Yusuf

“Increases” — Arabic from Hebrew origin

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

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. 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.

Around the world: #4 in Türkiye (2025) · #12 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #65 in England & Wales (2025).

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

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 — Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Yusuf Amir — Grand Theft Auto HD universe
Yusuf — Inception

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, Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012.

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

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