Fun Facts About the Name Yusra
- More than 2 thousand babies named Yusra: U.S. records list 2,859 babies given the name Yusra from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Yusra Mean?
Yusra is an Arabic feminine name meaning ease or prosperity. It comes from the root y-s-r, whose core sense is ease, smoothness, and freedom from hardship. The name is the feminine form of the elative adjective aysar ("easier"), so yusrā literally means "more ease" or "greater ease." Related words from the same root include yusr ("ease") and maysara ("ease, prosperity"). The secondary sense of prosperity grows out of this same idea of an easy, unburdened life; it is not a separate origin. The masculine names Yasir and Aysar share the root y-s-r and are not simply variant spellings of Yusra.
Yusra Name History & Origins
The word yusrā appears in the Quran, in Surah al-Layl (92:7), where God says He will ease a person "toward ease" (lil-yusrā). There it is a common noun rather than a personal name, but it shows how familiar the root was in Arabic religious language.
The name itself belongs to the earliest generations of Muslims. Biographical dictionaries of the Prophet Muhammad's companions record a woman named Yusra, a daughter of his uncle Abu Lahab, who is counted among the early believers; the details of her life vary between those later sources.
Because the name is Arabic and Islamic in origin, it traveled with the Arabic language and with Islam into the Levant, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, and South Asia, and it is also used by Muslim families in many other countries. When written in the Latin alphabet it takes several spellings - Yusra, Yousra, Yosra, and Yusrah - which reflect different transliteration conventions rather than different names. A well-known modern bearer is the Egyptian actress Yousra; the Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini is another.
How Popular is the Name Yusra?
Yusra recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2024. Its best rank was #954 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,021 | 246 | 0.0153% |
| 2024 | #954 | 273 | 0.0169% |
| 2023 | #1,198 | 201 | 0.0125% |
| 2022 | #1,118 | 220 | 0.0134% |
| 2021 | #1,352 | 164 | 0.0100% |
| 2020 | #1,351 | 163 | 0.0101% |
| 2019 | #1,444 | 154 | 0.0092% |
| 2018 | #1,649 | 129 | 0.0076% |
| 2017 | #1,743 | 122 | 0.0071% |
| 2016 | #1,718 | 124 | 0.0070% |
| 2015 | #1,936 | 105 | 0.0059% |
| 2014 | #2,389 | 77 | 0.0043% |
| 2013 | #2,624 | 68 | 0.0039% |
| 2012 | #2,864 | 61 | 0.0035% |
| 2011 | #2,942 | 59 | 0.0034% |
| 2010 | #2,425 | 78 | 0.0044% |
| 2009 | #2,891 | 61 | 0.0033% |
| 2008 | #3,119 | 55 | 0.0029% |
| 2007 | #3,373 | 50 | 0.0026% |
| 2006 | #3,562 | 45 | 0.0024% |
| 2005 | #3,363 | 46 | 0.0025% |
| 2004 | #3,489 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 2003 | #3,471 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 2002 | #3,807 | 35 | 0.0019% |
| 2001 | #3,315 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 2000 | #5,147 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 1999 | #5,890 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1998 | #4,490 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 1997 | #7,277 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1996 | #5,062 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1995 | #9,544 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1994 | #5,015 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1993 | #10,577 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #10,464 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #11,502 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1988 | #11,789 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #7,127 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1985 | #10,673 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1984 | #10,407 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1983 | #7,303 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1982 | #8,218 | 8 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Yusra Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have a strong need for freedom - physical, mental and spiritual. You hate bondage in any form. You have love of beauty and philosophy, and you desire achievement. You are willing to take spiritual matters on faith instead of subjecting them to mental analysis. You are inventive, intuitive and extremely methodical. Since your will is so strong, you are hard to convince. You also dislike advice. You love beauty and philosophy, and you desire achievement. You have a strong need for freedom - physical, mental and spiritual.
Creative and outgoing, you are always looking for an opportunity to show your abilities, especially before audience. You are very flexible and like to feel appreciated. You are looking for chances to mix with others socially and to communicate your ideas. You like to talk and can easily relate to different cultures and concepts. The biggest challenge for you is uncertainty. Easily getting bored, you can move from one job to another, switch projects and lovers. The high creative force can lead you either to happiness or unhappiness. If you understand your goals, if you can make major decisions in life and follow it directly and straight up without worry and uncertainty, you are able to achieve great heights.
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