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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.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 25 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Yusuf is especially popular in Türkiye.
#4 in Türkiye (2025) · #12 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #64 in England & Wales (2025) · #142 in Canada (2025) · #144 in Austria (2025) · #155 in Netherlands (2025) · #163 in Belgium (2025) · #175 in Sweden (2025) · #206 in Norway (2025) · #208 in Scotland (2025) · #216 in France (2025) · #286 in Ireland (2025) and 6 more.
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, 2008–2012 (born 1952).
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: Yosef · Mustafa · Yehuda · Sylas · Ibrahim · Idris
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