Youcef
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/juɛf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Youcef is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 416(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.9K
- YTMayotte≈1 in 11K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 416 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Youcef 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #321 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | #5 | Youcef | 40 |
| FR France | #721 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 6.5K | Youcef | 258 |
| ES Spain | — | 869 | 1 in 58K | 869 | Youcef | 14 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Youcef | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 8 | Youcef | 14 |
| YT Mayotte | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 5 | — | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the dz-kaggle-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). 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. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 6.5K | #406 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 869 | #3,130 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 564 | #1,932 |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2022 | 5 | #351 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Youcef?
- A machine transcription gives /juɛf/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Youcef a male or female name?
- Youcef 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 are other forms of the name Youcef?
- In the etymology graph, Jose, Joseph and Yusuf are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Youcef have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Youcef in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled youcef.
- How common is the name Youcef?
- In Spain, the national register counted 869 people named Youcef, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Youcef compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Youcef is the 321st most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Youcef?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/youcefThe 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, “Youcef” — the 321st most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.