Yousif
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Joseph (Arabic يوسف)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈjaʊsɪf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yousif is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- BHBahrain≈1 in 371(inferred from the name graph)
- SDSudan≈1 in 663
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.2K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 371 (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Joseph (Arabic يوسف)
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yousif 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | #5 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 663 | 4 | Yousif | 57 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Yousif | 31 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Yousif | 82 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #710 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Yousif | 95 |
| BH Bahrain | #8 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 371 | — | Yousif | 82 |
| US United States | — | 3,506 | 1 in 95K | 5.3K | Yousif | 249 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #230 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Yousif | 100 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,887 | 1 in 5.4K | 1.9K | Yousif | 45 |
| KW Kuwait | #374 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Yousif | 60 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the wgnd-eg-names register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 53 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.5K | #5,032 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.9K | #1,088 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 717 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 59 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #5,032 |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Yousif mean, and where does it come from?
- Joseph (Arabic يوسف) Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Yousif?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjaʊsɪf/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Yousif a male or female name?
- Yousif 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 Yousif?
- In the etymology graph, Joseph, Youssouf and Issouf are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yousif have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Yousif in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yousif.
- How common is the name Yousif?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,506 people named Yousif in 2020, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Yousif compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, Yousif is the 5th most common given name of 4,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yousif?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yousifThe 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, “Yousif” — the 5th most common given name in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.