Yousuf

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Yousuf: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Yousuf: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #430, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#430highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#976
1997	#1113
1998	#1110
1999	#776
2000	#691
2001	#910
2002	#656
2003	#577
2004	#678
2005	#638
2006	#624
2007	#664
2008	#658
2009	#641
2010	#536
2011	#528
2012	#649
2013	#655
2014	#566
2015	#506
2016	#459
2017	#514
2018	#584
2019	#541
2020	#656
2021	#598
2022	#585
2023	#464
2024	#464

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #430 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #464 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #976 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2016–2025
Highest recorded position: #430 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2016–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Yousuf appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,454 births with the name.

Yousuf across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Yousuf's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#976 (1996)	#459 (2016)	#464 (2024)	29 of 29	1,454 (1996–2024)	88 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#713 (2016)	#430 (2024)	#829 (2025)	6 of 10	27 (2016–2025)	8 (2024)

Yousuf by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Yousuf in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	59	4 of 10	15
2000s	373	10 of 10	37
2010s	671	10 of 10	67
2020sbusiest	351	5 of 10	70

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 70 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Yousuf appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #430 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Yousuf's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#464	86	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#464	86	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#585	64	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#598	63	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#656	52	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#541	70	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#584	63	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#514	77	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#459	88	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#506	76	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#566	63	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#655	51	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#649	53	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#528	66	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#536	64	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#641	50	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#658	46	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#664	43	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#624	45	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#638	41	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#678	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#577	39	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#656	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#910	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#691	26	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#776	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1113	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#976	14	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#496	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #430, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 88 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 20 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Yu · #404, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Caris · #430, 26y
Marcy · #430, 26y
Star · #430, 29y
Kenna · #431, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Caris · #430, 26y
Marcy · #430, 26y
Star · #430, 29y
Kenna · #431, 26y

Yousuf was ranked #430 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Yousuf and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Yousuf without appearing here.

Yousuf moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2002 they stood at #656 and #633 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #577 and #1132.
Gary Compare
In 2009 they stood at #641 and #576 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #536 and #897.
Garry Compare
In 1999 they stood at #776 and #750 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #691 and #1048.
Geoffrey Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1110 and #571 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #776 and #1082.

Moved ahead of Yousuf

Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1113 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1110 and #924.
Cooper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #624 and #677 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #664 and #509.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #624 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #664 and #538.
Mathias Compare
In 2023 they stood at #464 and #500 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #464 and #406.

Moved the opposite way to Yousuf

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yousuf went from #976 to #464 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yousuf went from #976 to #464 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yousuf went from #976 to #464 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yousuf went from #976 to #464 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Yousuf

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yousuf went from #976 to #464 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yousuf went from #976 to #464 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yousuf went from #976 to #464 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yousuf went from #976 to #464 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #430 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Yousuf

Yousuf at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Yousuf across 2 official records

Yousuf by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Yousuf across 2 official records

Yousuf by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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