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Yusuf: the prophet’s name and its Turkish rank, 2018–2025
What our database records for Yusuf as a prophet's name, the languages in our table, and TÜİK boys' ranks for each year from 2018 to 2025.
Yusuf was first on TÜİK’s national top-30 list for boys from 2018 to 2021, and it stayed in the list through 2025. The name is that of the prophet Joseph in Islam. This guide sets out what our database records, which languages we list it in, and how its rank changed.
What the name means
Our stored meaning for Yusuf reads Joseph (the prophet’s name). This is a name for the prophet Joseph, not a separate meaning-gloss. It says whom the name refers to rather than translating it into a word. Our database holds one stored meaning entry for Yusuf, with no alternatives recorded.
Our literal entry gives the Arabic Yūsuf, the Qur’anic form of Joseph. The confidence level is documented. Our summary adds that Yusuf is the Arabic form of Joseph, the patriarch known in Islam as a prophet.
Where the name is used
Our table lists Yusuf for five languages: Bashkir, Tatar, Turkish, Uyghur and Uzbek. The usage status is recorded as in use for Tatar and Uzbek, and as unknown for the others. For Turkish and Uyghur, the table also notes that Wiktionary lists it as a given name in that language’s section.
How often it was given in Turkey, 2018–2025
In TÜİK’s boys’ top-30 lists, Yusuf ranked as follows:
- 2018: rank 1, count 9,583
- 2019: rank 1, count 8,632
- 2020: rank 1, count 7,665
- 2021: rank 1, count 7,069
- 2022: rank 2, count 6,360
- 2023: rank 2, count 5,528
- 2024: rank 3, count 4,870
- 2025: rank 4, count 4,616
The count fell in every year from 2018 to 2025. The rank moved from first place to fourth over the same period. Yusuf held first place in four consecutive years, from 2018 to 2021, and was in the top four in every year of the period.
Where the data comes from
Ranks and counts come from TÜİK’s name statistics page, which covers the most-given newborn names for 2018–2025. Our chart uses the same national top-30 lists, and a year without a point means the name was not in that year’s top 30. The counts are births in those top-30 lists, not all births in Turkey. Meanings and languages come from our own database, and confidence levels are shown as stored.
Sources
- TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) – newborn-name lists, 2018–2025