Yousef is an alternate transcription of Yusuf, the Arabic and Turkish form of the Hebrew name Yosef. It means ‘He will add’. The English form of this name is Joseph.
Yousef is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Yousef isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Yousef ranks 753. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Yousef. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yousef.
Yousef is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Yousef cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #694 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2017. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Yousef, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Yousef seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yousef was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
254 babies were named Yousef in 2022 - that's 1 in 635,535 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Yousef ranked 842 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Yousef, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to men and boys named Yousef. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Yousef living in one state or another. If your name is Yousef and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New Jersey, which has the most people named Yousef relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,214 men and boys their names before you hear Yousef as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.7% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Yousef is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.7% of all boys’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common boys’ name that starts with Y is Yahir.
If your name is Yousef and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yousef, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Orange
Unicorn
Sun
Elephant
Fox
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yousef sounds like this:
