Given name & surname · also Arabic
Yusif
“God will add”
Yusif is a variant of Yusuf. In Arabic use, Yusuf carries the interpretation “God will add.”
Original Hebrewיוסף
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yusif is a variant of Yusuf. In Arabic use, Yusuf carries the interpretation “God will add.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yusif comes from Arabic, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Azerbaijani usage, Yusif developed from יוסף.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yusif through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 414
- 414 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 16
- #5,845 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −25%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 16 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,845 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 25.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 27 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 411 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.
Yusif’s family of names
In Azerbaijani usage, Yusif developed from the Hebrew form יוסף. In Azerbaijani usage, Yusif has a conventional equivalent in the English form Joseph. Yusif has a related form in Yusuf.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yusif
- Yusif Vazir ChamanzaminliAzerbaijani writer and politician (1887-1943)
- Yusif MammadaliyevAzerbaijani chemist (1905–1961)
- Yusif İmanovAzerbaijani footballerborn 2002
- Yusif SamadoghluAzerbaijani writer1935–1998
- Yusif HuseynovAzerbaijani Soviet painter (1928–2009)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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