Youssef
#1,554 for boys in 2025, 110 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 191 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,705since 1974
Youssef over time
Rank among boys' names. Youssef 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,554 | 110 |
| 2024 | #1,599 | 107 |
| 2023 | #1,473 | 122 |
| 2022 | #1,341 | 140 |
| 2021 | #1,461 | 123 |
| 2020 | #1,489 | 114 |
| 2019 | #1,244 | 151 |
| 2018 | #1,244 | 148 |
| 2017 | #1,042 | 193 |
| 2016 | #1,037 | 191 |
| 2015 | #1,065 | 186 |
| 2014 | #1,093 | 175 |
| 2013 | #1,080 | 173 |
| 2012 | #1,212 | 147 |
| 2011 | #1,495 | 108 |
| 2010 | #1,481 | 110 |
| 2009 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 2008 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2007 | #1,728 | 86 |
| 2006 | #1,512 | 100 |
| 2005 | #1,478 | 98 |
| 2004 | #1,542 | 86 |
| 2003 | #1,391 | 96 |
| 2002 | #1,459 | 87 |
| 2001 | #1,441 | 86 |
| 2000 | #1,585 | 74 |
| 1999 | #1,604 | 67 |
| 1998 | #1,546 | 69 |
| 1997 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #1,986 | 44 |
| 1995 | #2,346 | 33 |
| 1994 | #2,307 | 34 |
| 1993 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #2,683 | 25 |
| 1990 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
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| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
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| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Youssef! It came in at #4,634, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Youssef is popular in 1974
No state had 5 or more boys named Youssef in 1974, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Youssef
- 45 spots since 2024 (#1,599 → #1,554)
- 65 spots since 2020 (#1,489 → #1,554)
- 489 spots since 2015 (#1,065 → #1,554)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2016 at #1,037 (191 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,590 boys born in 2017 were named Youssef (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,528 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,037 in 2016, was only 1 in 9,936 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.7% of all boys named Youssef (1,582) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #4,634 (1974) | #5,111 |
| 1980s | 90 | #3,459 (1984) | #4,579 |
| 1990s | 378 | #1,546 (1998) | #2,348 |
| 2000s | 928 | #1,391 (2003) | #1,519 |
| 2010s | 1,582 | #1,037 (2016) | #1,199 |
| 2020s | 716 | #1,341 (2022) | #1,486 |
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.
Youssef in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 262,056 of them was named Youssef, which outranked 22.8% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,190Zavier7
- #4,190Zebulon7
- #4,190Zoltan7
- #4,634Youssef6
- #4,634Aamir6
- #4,634Aashish6
- #4,634Abayomi6
- #5,227Adante5
- #5,227Adaryl5
- #5,227Adedayo5
Tied with 592 names at #4,634; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.