Yusof
surname · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yusof is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Türkiye it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script.
- PSPalestine1 in 107◐
- DZAlgeria1 in 129
- TRTürkiye1 in 156
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.5M ●
- #526 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 288 ●
- 1 in 156 ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
4.2M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yusuf in TR Türkiye, US United States, DZ Algeria and 10 more, Юсуф in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TJ Tajikistan and 3 more, Yousef in EG Egypt, JO Jordan, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 more and ยูโซ๊ะ in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 23 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,598,759△ | 110K rec. | 1 in 208 | 1.6M | Yusuf | 288 |
| TR Türkiye | #15 | 526,127 | 3.3M rec. | 1 in 156 | 526K | Yusuf | 150 |
| FR France | — | 379,715△ | 21 rec. | 1 in 179 | 380K | — | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | #24 | 188,715 | 2.6K rec. | — | listed | Yusuf | 31 |
| NG Nigeria | #22 | 178,379 | 273K rec. | — | — | Yusuf | 130 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 151,624 | 82K rec. | — | — | Yusof | 126 |
| PS Palestine | #22 | 104,139 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Yusuf | 58 |
| SY Syria | #21 | 94,894 | 137K rec. | — | — | Yusuf | 55 |
| TH Thailand | — | 90,200 | 45K rec. | — | #513,634 | ยูโซ๊ะ | 89 |
| RU Russia | #549 | 43,990 | 26K rec. | — | #160 | Юсуф | 115 |
| EG Egypt | #128 | 36,443 | 28K rec. | — | listed | Yousef | 132 |
| DE Germany | #489 | 34,166 | 35K rec. | — | 2 | Yusuf | 142 |
Roughly 1.6M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 208). 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●
- Malay112K68%
- English20K12%
- Indonesian15K9%
- Chinese1.9K1%
- Arabic1.8K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 112,316 | 68% |
| English | 20,463 | 12% |
| Indonesian | 14,889 | 9% |
| Chinese | 1,937 | 1% |
| Arabic | 1,813 | 1% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 19 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 20 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 7 years between 2014–2020. 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)
- Yusof bin Ishakb. 1910SG1st President of Singapore (1910–1970)
- Yusuf Luleb. 1912UGnot in their usual namefourth president of Uganda (1912–1985)
- 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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 40 | #15,789 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #17,610 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 20 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #32,163 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 12 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #24,047 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 10 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #7,085 |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 64 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yusof?
- We estimate roughly 2.5 million people bear Yusof (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yusof have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.6 million people bear Yusof in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yusuf.
- How common is Yusof compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yusof is the 15th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
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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.
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, “Yusof” — the 15th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.