Youssef
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the Arabic male personal name Yusuf, the prophet Joseph
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈjusɛf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Youssef is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 133(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 473
- EGEgypt≈1 in 550
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 133 (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yoùssef in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Arabic male personal name Yusuf, the prophet Joseph.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Youssef 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #5 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 133 | — | Youssef | 178 |
| EG Egypt | #48 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 550 | — | Youssef | 187 |
| FR France | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 22K | Yoùssef | 9 |
| TN Tunisia | #7 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 473 | 3.5K | Youssef | 101 |
| ES Spain | #536 | 22,761 | 1 in 2.2K | 23K | Youssef | 106 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 414 | Youssef | 112 |
| LB Lebanon | #253 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Youssef | 94 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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 Wahbib. 1898EGEgyptian film director and actor (1898–1982)
- Youssef Chahineb. 1926EGEgyptian film director (1926–2008)
- Youssef Chahedb. 1975TNTunisian politician
- Youssef Mohamadb. 1980LBLebanese footballer
- Youssouf Hadjib. 1980MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan and French footballer
- Youssef El-Arabib. 1987FRMoroccan footballer
- Yousef Masrahib. 1987SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian track and field athlete
- Youssef Msaknib. 1990TNTunisian association football player
- Youssef En-Nesyrib. 1997MAMoroccan association football player
- Youssef Amynb. 2003DEIraq association football player
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 88 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 23K | #319 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 22K | #102 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 18K | #162 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 2022 | 3.5K | #1 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Youssef mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Arabic male personal name Yusuf, the prophet Joseph. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Youssef?
- In the etymology graph, Joseph, Yusuf and Yousef are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Youssef have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 267 thousand people named Youssef in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled youssef.
- How do you pronounce Youssef?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjusɛf/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Youssef a male or female name?
- Youssef 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.
- How common is the name Youssef?
- In Spain, the national register counted 22,761 people named Youssef, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Youssef compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Youssef is the 5th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/youssefThe 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, “Youssef” — the 5th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.