Given name
Youcef
Youcef is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Youcef through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 96
- 96 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,859 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,859 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 304 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.
Youcef’s family of names
In Egyptian Arabic usage, Youcef has a conventional equivalent in the French form YOUSSEF.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Youcef
- Youcef AtalAlgerian association football playerborn 1996
- Youcef BelaïliAlgerian and French footballerborn 1992
- Youcef ReguiguiAlgerian cyclistborn 1990
- Youcef AbdiAustralian middle distance runnerborn 1977
- Youcef NadarkhaniIranian criminalborn 1977
- Youcef DrisAlgerian writer and journalistborn 1945
- Youcef ZiremAlgerian journalist and writerborn 1964
- Youcef ZighoudAlgerian FLN party fighter during the Algerian War (1921-1956)
- Youcef BelmehdiAlgerian politicianborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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