Yoússef
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yoússef is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic يُوسِف (yūsif).
- MAMorocco≈1 in 133(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 473
- EGEgypt≈1 in 550
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 133 (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Youssef in EG Egypt, MA Morocco, ES Spain and 3 more and Yoùssef in FR France.
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)
Borrowed from Arabic يُوسِف (yūsif).
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yoússef 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #5 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 133 | — | Youssef | 178 |
| EG Egypt | #48 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 550 | — | Youssef | 187 |
| FR France | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 22K | Yoùssef | 9 |
| TN Tunisia | #7 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 473 | 3.5K | Youssef | 101 |
| ES Spain | #536 | 22,761 | 1 in 2.2K | 23K | Youssef | 106 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 414 | Youssef | 112 |
| LB Lebanon | #253 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Youssef | 94 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yoússef mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic يُوسِف (yūsif). Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history] and 1 other source.
- Is Yoússef a male or female name?
- Yoússef 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 Yoússef have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 267 thousand people named Yoússef in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled youssef.
- How common is the name Yoússef?
- In Spain, the national register counted 22,761 people named Yoússef, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Yoússef compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Yoússef is the 5th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yo%C3%BAssefThe 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, “Yoússef” — the 5th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.