Yousef

Where Yousef comes from

Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), equivalent to English Joseph.
— Wiktionary's entry for Yousef
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1829
    Yousef al-Khalidi born
    Ottoman statesperson
  2. 1916
    Yousef Hamadani Cohen born
    Iranian rabbi
  3. 1970
    First appearance
    #4,724 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2017
    Peak, #725
    330 babies named Yousef — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Yousef Hamadani Cohen · Iranian rabbi, 1916–2014
  • Yousef al-Khalidi · Ottoman statesperson, 1829–1907
  • Yousef Al Otaiba · diplomat, born 1974
  • Yousef Jabareen · Israeli politician, born 1972
  • Yousef Alaeldin · Sudanese association football player, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.