Yusif
Hebrew at root, meaning "God will increase". Only about 95 men in Poland carry this spelling, few enough that most Poles have never met one, and the handful of recent births has already tailed off.
Yusif Pronunciation
Yusif is pronounced ih-OO-sheef (/ɨˈuɕif/).
What Yusif means
Where Yusif comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yusif reaches back to Hebrew Yosef, a name built from a verb meaning to add or increase. The old sense reads as a wish and a forecast at once: God will increase. Yusif is the form that traveled through Arabic, where Yusuf became the name of a prophet and the title of the twelfth sura of the Quran. The spelling with the second i is familiar across the Turkic and Azerbaijani world.
The story in that sura runs from loss to return. Yusuf is sold, imprisoned, then raised to power in Egypt, and the arithmetic of the name pays out. A family that had shrunk grows again.
In Poland the name arrives as a guest rather than a native. A Yusif on a school register in Gdańsk stands beside the Polish Józef, the same Hebrew root reshaped by Latin. Both hold the same promise: bóg pomnoży, God will increase.
How many people are named Yusif
1 in 224697 men in Poland is named Yusif. 95 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3573 among male names.
Yusif's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.