Yousra
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- YOOS-rah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Yousra is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “ease, prosperity”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Yousra mean?
Arabic: variant of Yusra
“ease, prosperity”
Echoes the Qur'anic promise that 'with hardship comes ease' (yusra).
Is Yousra a girl's or a boy's name?
Yousra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yousra in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Yousra, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Yousra in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Yousra in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 12 | #2,323 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 16 | #1,904 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 14 | #2,085 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 7 | #2,940 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 7 | #2,574 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 7 | #2,341 |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
How popular is Yousra in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 30% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Yousra, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
2025 had more girls named Yousra than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Yousra in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yousra in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,445 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
Names like Yousra
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Zainab, Ayah, Huda, Amira, Abeeha, Khadija, Aaliyah, Safaa
Names related to Yousra
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yousra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yousra, updated 20 October 2026.