Yousuf
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yousuf is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Oman it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Arabic male personal name Yusuf, the prophet Joseph.
- TRTürkiye1 in 156◐
- OMOman1 in 408
- TMTurkmenistan1 in 464
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈548K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 205 ●
- 1 in 156 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
371K records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Yusuf in TR Türkiye, IN India, NG Nigeria and 2 more, Юсуп in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more, Yusup in ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and Yuşup in TM Turkmenistan.
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 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 526,127△ | 8.3K rec. | 1 in 156 | 526K | Yusuf | 43 |
| IN India | #963 | 395,932 | 226K rec. | — | 1.3K | Yusuf | 144 |
| BD Bangladesh | #282 | 113,026 | 7.6K rec. | — | listed | Yousuf | 103 |
| RU Russia | #597 | 38,524 | 36K rec. | — | #187 | Юсуп | 117 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 19,885 | 2.5K rec. | — | listed | Yusup | 122 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #38 | 12,112 | 14K rec. | — | #17 | Yuşup | 14 |
| NG Nigeria | #630 | 11,459 | 16K rec. | — | — | Yusuf | 56 |
| US United States | — | 8,907 | 22K rec. | 1 in 37K | 8.9K | Yousuf | 205 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 7,725 | 4.8K rec. | — | — | Yusup | 31 |
| PK Pakistan | #631 | 5,660 | 1.9K rec. | — | 1 | Yousuf | 90 |
| FR France | — | 4,640△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 15K | 4.6K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,777△ | 371 rec. | 1 in 2.7K | 3.8K | Yousuf | 19 |
Roughly 526K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 156). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English83K30%
- Bangla62K22%
- Hindi32K11%
- 22K8%
- Telugu19K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 83,446 | 30% |
| Bangla | 62,066 | 22% |
| Hindi | 31,967 | 11% |
| 21,796 | 8% | |
| Telugu | 19,362 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 11 |
| 1995 | 15 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 12 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 24 |
| 2000 | 32 |
| 2001 | 30 |
| 2002 | 31 |
| 2003 | 36 |
| 2004 | 52 |
| 2005 | 27 |
| 2006 | 34 |
| 2007 | 34 |
| 2008 | 47 |
| 2009 | 36 |
| 2010 | 48 |
| 2011 | 54 |
| 2012 | 62 |
| 2013 | 59 |
| 2014 | 80 |
| 2015 | 81 |
| 2016 | 81 |
| 2017 | 75 |
| 2018 | 82 |
| 2019 | 90 |
| 2020 | 92 |
| 2021 | 72 |
| 2022 | 101 |
| 2023 | 84 |
| 2024 | 91 |
| 2025 | 88 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1983–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Youssef ibn Tashfinb. 1009MAnot in their usual nameleader of the Almoravid dynasty (r. 1061–1106), founder of Marrakech and a key figure in consolidating power in southern Morocco before expanding into Al-Andalus
- Al-Mustanjidb. 1124IQnot in their usual namethe Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1160 to 1170
- Baha ad-Din Shoiebb. 1145IQnot in their usual nameKurdish historian and scholar, biographer of Saladin (1145–1234)
- Yousuf Karshb. 1908CAArmenian-Canadian photographer (1908–2002)
- Yusof bin Ishakb. 1910SGnot in their usual name1st President of Singapore (1910–1970)
- Yousaf Raza Gillanib. 1952PKnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012
- Yusuf Dikeçb. 1973TRnot in their usual nameTurkish sport shooter (born 1973)
- Yousef Sweidb. 1976ILnot in their usual nameArab-Israeli actor of Palestinian descent
- Yusuf Yazıcıb. 1997TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- YusufEGnot in their usual nameprophet and son of Jacob in Islam
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 52 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 19K | #309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #8,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 721 | #30,552 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 572 | #2,523 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 484 | #46 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 318 | #3,405 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 252 | #15,090 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 246 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 245 | #3,516 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 124 | #12,572 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 203 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yousuf?
- We estimate roughly 548 thousand people bear Yousuf (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yousuf have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 526 thousand people bear Yousuf in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yusuf.
- Where is Yousuf most common?
- Yousuf is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 156 people carrying it.
- How common is Yousuf compared with other names?
- In Oman, Yousuf is the 21st most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.
- Is Yousuf a male or female name?
- Yousuf 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 Yousuf mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the Arabic male personal name Yusuf, the prophet Joseph.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yousuf” — the 21st most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.