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How popular is the name Yusuf?

Births per year, rank history and how many Yusufs are alive today.

Yusuf (male) is currently the 64th most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 798 babies given the name in 2025. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 12,000 babies have been named Yusuf in England and Wales since 1996. Yusuf is one spelling of a name also recorded as Yousaf and Yousuf; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Yusuf you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Yusufs born in England and Wales are between 5 and 18, and there are at least 15,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 4.8% chance that at least one of them will be called Yusuf.

How many babies are named Yusuf each year?

Includes all spellings: Yusuf, Yousaf, Yousuf. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Yusuf spelling rank?

Where does the Yousaf spelling rank?

Where does the Yousuf spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.