Yūsuf
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yūsuf is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish یوسف (Yusuf), from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), from Hebrew יוסף (Yōsēph).
- TRTürkiye1 in 156(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 277
- SYSyria≈1 in 497
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yūsuf itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #354 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- 1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)
≈770,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yousef in EG Egypt, KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia and 1 more and Yusuf in TR Türkiye, NG Nigeria, SY Syria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Ottoman TurkishیوسفYusuf(measured from records)
- Arabicيُوسُفyūsuf(measured from records)
- HebrewיוסףYōsēph(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish یوسف (Yusuf), from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), from Hebrew יוסף (Yōsēph).
Sources 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- The African book of names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yūsuf counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #24 | ≈770,000 est. | ≈1 in 277 | — | Yusuf | 137 |
| TR Türkiye | #18 | 526,127 | 1 in 156 | 526K | Yusuf | 173 |
| EG Egypt | #106 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Yousef | 139 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #57 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 843 | — | Yousef | 163 |
| SY Syria | #28 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 497 | — | Yusuf | 60 |
| JO Jordan | #67 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 331 | — | Yousef | 126 |
| KW Kuwait | #30 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 372 | — | Yousef | 136 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; the wgnd-eg-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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. 1910SGnot in their usual name1st President of Singapore (1910–1970)
- Yusuf Luleb. 1912UGfourth president of Uganda (1912–1985)
- Yousaf Raza Gillanib. 1952PKnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012
- Yusuf Dikeçb. 1973TRTurkish sport shooter (born 1973)
- Yousef Sweidb. 1976ILnot in their usual nameArab-Israeli actor of Palestinian descent
- Yusuf Yazıcıb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- YusufEGprophet 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(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yūsuf mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish یوسف (Yusuf), from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), from Hebrew יוסף (Yōsēph). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 8 other sources.
- Is Yūsuf a male or female name?
- Yūsuf 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.
- In which country does Yūsuf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 773 thousand people named Yūsuf in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yusuf.
- Where is Yūsuf most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yūsuf is densest in Türkiye — about 1 in 156 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yūsuf?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 526,127 people named Yūsuf in 2025, about 1 in 156 residents.
- How common is Yūsuf compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Yūsuf is the 24th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%C5%ABsufThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Yūsuf” — the 24th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.