Yusuf is the Arabic and Turkish form of Yosef, a Hebrew name meaning ‘He will add’. Yusuf is also common in Indonesia.
Yusuf is a male first name.
The name Yusuf 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, Yusuf ranks 542. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Yusuf. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yusuf.
Yusuf is the Arabic and Turkish form of Yosef, a Hebrew name meaning ‘He will add’. Yusuf is also common in Indonesia.
In the US,... Yusuf is used since the year 2000.
Yusuf is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Yusuf cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #525 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2019. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Yusuf, 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, Yusuf 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 Yusuf was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
518 babies were named Yusuf in 2022 - that's 1 in 311,633 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Yusuf ranked 536 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 five letters, the name Yusuf is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Yusuf 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 Yusuf, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Unicorn
Sun
Unicorn
Fox
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yusuf
Yusuf
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
U
S
U
F
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.
Y
U
S
U
F
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. Yusuf sounds like this:
