Yussef
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- YOO-sef
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Yussef is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “he will add”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Yussef mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Yusef, itself a spelling of Yusuf, the Arabic form of Joseph
“he will add”
A spelling of Yusuf, the Arabic form of Joseph.
Meaning borrowed from Yusef.
Is Yussef a girl's or a boy's name?
Yussef is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yussef in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,799among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Yussef, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.
2025 had more boys named Yussef than any year since 2015.
Half of all the boys named Yussef in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,454 boys in the US were given Yussef or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #261, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.
Yussef in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,620 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,939 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,065 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,618 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,633 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,241 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,928 |
Names like Yussef
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa Zamir Yahir Zahir Hamza Salem Zayd Ibrahim Yazan Asaiah Zayan Nazir
Other spellings of Yussef
Yusuf Yousef Youssef Yousuf Yusef Yousif Yusif Yussuf Yousaf Yousof Yosuf
Names related to Yussef
More Hebrew names
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Sources
Figures from 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, “Yussef: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yussef, updated 20 October 2026.