Given name & surname · also Turkish
Jusuf
“to add”
Jusuf is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jusuf goes back to Biblical Hebrew הוֹסִיף (hosíf), meaning “to add.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Jusuf comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish یوسف (yusuf), from Arabic يُوسُف, from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yōsép), from Biblical Hebrew הוֹסִיף (hosíf, “to add”), from Biblical Hebrew י־ס־ף.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jusuf through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 67
- 67 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,171 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,171 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 262 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jusuf’s family of names
Jusuf shares an earlier linguistic root with Jozef. Jusuf has a conventional equivalent in the English form Joseph. Jusuf has a related form in Jozef.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jusuf has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
5 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 30
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- JosephEnglish
- Yosefequivalent
- Giuseppeequivalent
- Josefequivalent
- Iosifequivalent
- Josepequivalent
- Josifdoublet · Serbo-Croatian
- Josipdoublet · Serbo-Croatian
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- Seffequivalent
- Jožeequivalent
- Ossipequivalent
- Juozasequivalent
- Jožefequivalent
- Józsefequivalent
- Joepequivalent
- Iosephusequivalent
- Isufcognate · Albanian
- Osypequivalent
- Jožkoequivalent
- Joséequivalent
- Juozapasequivalent
- Giüsèppequivalent
- Jooseppiequivalent
- יוסףequivalent
- Иосифequivalent
- Josebaequivalent
- Osipequivalent
- Joosefequivalent
- Józefequivalent
- Jùsufhas masculine form
People named Jusuf
- B. J. Habibie3rd President of Indonesia (1998—1999) and 7th Vice President of Indonesia (1998)1936–2019
- Jusuf NurkićBosnian basketball playerborn 1994
- Jusuf Kalla10th and 12th Vice President of Indonesia, businessmanborn 1942
- Yousuf Al-ThunayanSaudi Arabian footballerborn 1963
- Youcef YousfiAlgerian politicianborn 1941
- Yusup Abdusalomovwrestlerborn 1977
- Jusuf GazibegovićBosnian association football playerborn 2000
- Yousef NasserKuwaiti footballerborn 1990
- Yousef SaaneiIranian grand ayatollah (1937-2020)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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