Yousef
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #744 for boys in 2025, 349 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 330 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,003since 1970
Yousef over time
Rank among boys' names. Yousef has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #744 | 349 | |
| 2024 | — | #766 | 331 | |
| 2023 | — | #823 | 297 | |
| 2022 | — | #907 | 255 | |
| 2021 | — | #893 | 257 | |
| 2020 | — | #863 | 262 | |
| 2019 | — | #759 | 312 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #792 | 286 |
| 2017 | — | #725 | 330 | |
| 2016 | — | #775 | 309 | |
| 2015 | — | #788 | 296 | |
| 2014 | — | #765 | 307 | |
| 2013 | — | #849 | 251 | |
| 2012 | — | #891 | 235 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,020 | 188 | |
| 2010 | — | #989 | 199 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,039 | 184 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,064 | 177 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,206 | 146 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,360 | 119 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,076 | 153 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,060 | 152 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,205 | 122 | |
| 2002 | — | #998 | 156 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,100 | 129 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,015 | 144 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,227 | 102 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,133 | 110 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,456 | 74 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,387 | 76 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,477 | 65 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,399 | 70 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,638 | 54 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,884 | 43 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,744 | 46 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,870 | 41 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,793 | 42 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,514 | 49 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,684 | 40 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,917 | 31 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,698 | 36 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,933 | 28 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,822 | 30 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,942 | 28 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,110 | 25 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
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| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yousef! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yousef is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#657 · 1 in 13,027
- New York#1,160 · 1 in 24,209
Best ever in a state: #268 in Illinois, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #657 | 5 | 1 in 13,027 |
| New York | #1,160 | 5 | 1 in 24,209 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Yousef
- 22 spots since 2024 (#766 → #744)
- 119 spots since 2020 (#863 → #744)
- 44 spots since 2015 (#788 → #744)
- Biggest jump: 129 spots in 2012 (#1,020 → #891)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 2003 (#998 → #1,205)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2017 at #725 (330 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2012–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,894 boys born in 2025 were named Yousef (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #725 in 2017, was only 1 in 5,609 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.7% of all boys named Yousef (2,713) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50 | #2,902 (1975) | #4,122 |
| 1980s | 326 | #1,514 (1988) | #1,912 |
| 1990s | 681 | #1,133 (1998) | #1,522 |
| 2000s | 1,482 | #998 (2002) | #1,112 |
| 2010s | 2,713 | #725 (2017) | #835 |
| 2020s | 1,751 | #744 (2025) | #833 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yousef in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 51,339 of them was named Yousef, which outranked 77.6% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,672Teodoro37
- #1,672Trumaine37
- #1,672Yves37
- #1,698Yousef36
- #1,698Angus36
- #1,698Axel36
- #1,698Berry36
- #1,724Ameer35
- #1,724Arik35
- #1,724Aris35
Tied with 25 names at #1,698; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.