Yousuf
surname · 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
/iəsʊf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yousuf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Turkmenistan it is the 47th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.7K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 7K
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 Yousuf 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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
526,127 named Yusuf, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yusuf in TR Türkiye, Yusup in ID Indonesia and Yuşup in TM Turkmenistan.
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 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yousuf 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 526,127as Yusuf | 1 in 156 | 526K | Yusuf | 42 |
| BD Bangladesh | #651 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Yousuf | 106 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | 1 | Yousuf | 116 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Yusup | 134 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #47 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 405 | #17 | Yuşup | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,777as Yusuf | 1 in 2.7K | 3.8K | — | 18 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Yousuf | 114 |
526,127 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; 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)
- Muhammad Yousafb. 1952PKnot in their usual namePakistani snooker player
- Syra Yousufb. 1988PKPakistani model and presenter, actress and VJ
- Dadvan Yousufb. 2000IQEntrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor
- Sayyid Sulaiman Yousuf Banuri Al-HusainiPKPakistani Islamic scholar
- Rashida YoosufMVnot in their usual namepolitician
- Abdullahi Yousufpolitician
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 54 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 245 | #3,516 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #1,056 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Yousuf 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].
- How do you pronounce Yousuf?
- A machine transcription gives /iəsʊf/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Yousuf?
- In the etymology graph, Issoufou is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yousuf have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 526 thousand people named Yusuf, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yousuf?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 526,127 people named Yusuf in 2025, about 1 in 156 residents.
- How common is Yousuf compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Yousuf is the 47th most common given name of 38,989 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/yousufThe 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, “Yousuf” — the 47th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.