Yusof
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jusof/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yusof is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 156as Yusuf(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 277as Yusuf
- JOJordan≈1 in 331as Yousef
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yusof itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #354 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- 1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)
≈770,000 named Yusuf, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, as Yusuf
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yousef in EG Egypt, KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia and 1 more and Yusuf in TR Türkiye, NG Nigeria, SY Syria.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yusof 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #24 | ≈770,000 est. | ≈1 in 277 | — | Yusuf | 137 |
| TR Türkiye | #18 | 526,127as Yusuf | 1 in 156 | 526K | Yusuf | 173 |
| EG Egypt | #106 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Yousef | 139 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #57 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 843 | — | Yousef | 163 |
| SY Syria | #28 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 497 | — | Yusuf | 60 |
| JO Jordan | #67 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 331 | — | Yousef | 126 |
| KW Kuwait | #30 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 372 | — | Yousef | 136 |
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: TÜİK NIP — most used given 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 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. 1910SG1st President of Singapore (1910–1970)
- Yusuf Luleb. 1912UGfourth president of Uganda (1912–1985)
- Yousaf Raza Gillanib. 1952PKnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012
- Yusuf Dikeçb. 1973TRTurkish sport shooter (born 1973)
- Yousef Sweidb. 1976ILnot in their usual nameArab-Israeli actor of Palestinian descent
- Yusuf Yazıcıb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- YusufEGprophet 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Yusof?
- A machine transcription gives /jusof/ (IPA) for Malay.
- What are other forms of the name Yusof?
- In the etymology graph, Issoufou is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yusof have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 773 thousand people named Yusuf in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yusof most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Yusof itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Türkiye's: the national register counts about 1 in 156 people named Yusuf.
- How common is the name Yusof?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 526,127 people named Yusuf in 2025, about 1 in 156 residents.
- How common is Yusof compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Yusof is the 24th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yusof?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yusofThe 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, “Yusof” — the 24th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.