Youssef

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Youssef is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Arabic male personal name Yusuf, the prophet Joseph.

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco1 in 147◐
  • TNTunisia1 in 213
  • EGEgypt1 in 468

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈54K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
310 ●

305K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

YoussefLatin · Arabic●261K records
ยูสเซฟThai · Thai●4 records

Locally spelled Ÿoúṩṩễf in DZ Algeria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From the Arabic male personal name Yusuf, the prophet Joseph.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Youssef is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MA Morocco#3104,324101K rec.——Youssef162
EG Egypt#4183,85943K rec.——Youssef174
ES Spain—22,76114K rec.1 in 2.2K23KYoussef100
FR France—22,105△92 rec.1 in 3.1K22K—6
TN Tunisia#318,6939.2K rec.—3.5KYoussef89
NL Netherlands#98513,8192.9K rec.—2.2KYoussef80
SY Syria#35110,94718K rec.——Youssef47
JO Jordan#4510,598157 rec.——Youssef37
US United States—5,57662K rec.1 in 60K5.7KYoussef310
DE Germany—4,9706.4K rec.——Youssef124
BE Belgium#4833,9433.9K rec.—414Youssef107
IT Italy—3,6364.7K rec.—208Youssef92

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic261K40%
  • French190K29%
  • Spanish64K10%
  • English34K5%
  • Catalan23K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic261,43140%
French189,86029%
Spanish64,46610%
English33,8105%
Catalan22,7634%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Youssef is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name237K records spelled Youssef127 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Morocco

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Yoùsséf, Yousséf, Yoùssef, Yoùssèf, Yôùsséf

  • Spanish given name88K records spelled Youssef134 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yousséf, Yoùsséf, Yöušsëf, Yõüssëf, Yôussef

  • Danish given name5.2K records spelled Youssef17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Yóùssēf, Yoùsséf, Yoùssef, Ÿoùssēf, Yóusséf

  • Turkish given name5.0K records spelled Youssef28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Morocco

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Ýöuşşef, Yõüşşëf, Ÿöüssëf, Yoùsséf, Youşşef

  • Polish given name2.4K records spelled Youssef7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Yousŝef, Ÿôùssêf, Yousséf, Ŷŏuŝsẽḟ, Ÿoúṩṩễf

  • Hindi given name2.2K records spelled Youssef15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ýőusséf, Ÿöussef, Youssèf, Ýoussef, Ýóússef

  • Finnish given name1.6K records spelled Youssef6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ýõűśśef, Ÿõûssëf, Ŷõüssêf, Ÿöûssëf

  • Italian given name1.1K records spelled Youssef6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Morocco

    Also written Yoúsśef, Yôùsséf, Yoûssef, Youssëf, Yoùssef

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05010015020019801990200020102020193 · 2017

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Youssef in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1974–2025
Yearrecords
19746
19765
19807
19816
19828
198310
198412
19859
19869
198711
19886
198912
199018
199125
199227
199325
199434
199533
199644
199736
199869
199967
200074
200186
200287
200396
200486
200598
2006100
200786
2008119
200996
2010110
2011108
2012147
2013173
2014175
2015186
2016191
2017193
2018148
2019151
2020114
2021123
2022140
2023122
2024107
2025110

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 48 years between 1974–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Youssef Wahbi, b. 1898Youssef Chahine, b. 1926Youssef Chahed, b. 1975Youssef Mohamad, b. 1980Youssouf Hadji, b. 1980Youssef El-Arabi, b. 1987Yousef Masrahi, b. 1987Youssef Msakni, b. 1990Youssef En-Nesyri, b. 1997Youssef Amyn, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 85 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Youssef
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—23K#319
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202422K#102
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—18K#162
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.7K#5,830
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.6K#3,650
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.7K#8,854
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)20223.5K#1
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.3K#12,502
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.2K#1,293
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.1K#1,029
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.3K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.1K#1,552

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 572 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Youssef?
We estimate roughly 54 thousand people bear Youssef (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Youssef have the most bearers?
Youssef is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled youssef.
How common is Youssef compared with other names?
In Morocco, Youssef is the 3rd most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
Is Youssef a male or female name?
Youssef is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Youssef mean?
Recorded meaning: From the Arabic male personal name Yusuf, the prophet Joseph.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Youssef” — the 3rd most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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