Yusef
#1,886 for boys in 2025, 83 births
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 56 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,116since 1962
Yusef over time
Rank among boys' names. Yusef has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,886 | 83 |
| 2024 | #1,631 | 104 |
| 2023 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 2022 | #2,136 | 69 |
| 2021 | #2,439 | 55 |
| 2020 | #2,437 | 53 |
| 2019 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2018 | #2,189 | 63 |
| 2017 | #2,240 | 59 |
| 2016 | #2,437 | 52 |
| 2015 | #1,931 | 75 |
| 2014 | #1,907 | 76 |
| 2013 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2011 | #1,947 | 71 |
| 2010 | #1,816 | 80 |
| 2009 | #2,010 | 69 |
| 2008 | #1,802 | 82 |
| 2007 | #1,713 | 88 |
| 2006 | #1,724 | 81 |
| 2005 | #1,943 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,131 | 55 |
| 2003 | #2,392 | 44 |
| 2002 | #1,916 | 58 |
| 2001 | #2,007 | 53 |
| 2000 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1999 | #1,903 | 51 |
| 1998 | #2,040 | 46 |
| 1997 | #1,859 | 50 |
| 1996 | #1,740 | 53 |
| 1995 | #1,801 | 48 |
| 1994 | #1,689 | 53 |
| 1993 | #1,699 | 51 |
| 1992 | #1,820 | 45 |
| 1991 | #1,768 | 45 |
| 1990 | #1,564 | 53 |
| 1989 | #1,733 | 44 |
| 1988 | #1,645 | 43 |
| 1987 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #2,019 | 28 |
| 1984 | #1,796 | 31 |
| 1983 | #1,955 | 27 |
| 1982 | #1,395 | 46 |
| 1981 | #1,411 | 45 |
| 1980 | #1,619 | 36 |
| 1979 | #1,532 | 38 |
| 1978 | #1,410 | 43 |
| 1977 | #1,390 | 43 |
| 1976 | #1,154 | 55 |
| 1975 | #1,280 | 45 |
| 1974 | #1,409 | 37 |
| 1973 | #1,136 | 52 |
| 1972 | #1,083 | 56 |
| 1971 | #1,289 | 42 |
| 1970 | #1,222 | 46 |
| 1969 | #1,728 | 23 |
| 1968 | #2,445 | 12 |
| 1967 | #1,906 | 17 |
| 1966 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #2,409 | 12 |
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| 1962 | #2,848 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yusef! It came in at #2,848, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Yusef is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#669 · 1 in 4,713
- New Jersey#777 · 1 in 5,941
- New York#1,063 · 1 in 9,349
- Illinois#1,319 · 1 in 13,278
- California#1,446 · 1 in 18,858
Best ever in a state: #341 in New Jersey, 1971.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #669 | 9 | 1 in 4,713 |
| New Jersey | #777 | 7 | 1 in 5,941 |
| New York | #1,063 | 11 | 1 in 9,349 |
| Illinois | #1,319 | 5 | 1 in 13,278 |
| California | #1,446 | 12 | 1 in 18,858 |
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See more about Yusef
- 255 spots since 2024 (#1,631 → #1,886)
- 551 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #1,886)
- 45 spots since 2015 (#1,931 → #1,886)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1972 at #1,083 (56 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,566 boys born in 2024 were named Yusef (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,579 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,083 in 1972, was only 1 in 28,957 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.0% of all boys named Yusef (654) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 91 | #1,728 (1969) | #2,420 |
| 1970s | 457 | #1,083 (1972) | #1,291 |
| 1980s | 346 | #1,395 (1982) | #1,838 |
| 1990s | 495 | #1,564 (1990) | #1,788 |
| 2000s | 646 | #1,713 (2007) | #1,963 |
| 2010s | 654 | #1,816 (2010) | #2,125 |
| 2020s | 427 | #1,631 (2024) | #2,129 |
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.
Yusef in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 25,557 of them was named Yusef, which outranked 86.3% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,910Sanjay76
- #1,910Wendell76
- #1,910West76
- #1,931Yusef75
- #1,931Andrei75
- #1,931Breck75
- #1,931Cartier75
- #1,955Abbas74
- #1,955Ashtyn74
- #1,955Ayub74
Tied with 23 names at #1,931; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.