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Younes

#2,143 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yunus

Younes has been given to 645 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #2,143 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Younes, 2025

1 in 48,800

Younes over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Younes: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yunus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Younes means

Younes is a form of Yunus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Younes → Yunus → Ἰωνᾶς → יוֹנָה → Iunius. The family’s meaning is “Of the Junian gens”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Iunius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yunus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 645 boys were recorded with the name Younes between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,143 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,411 in 2020 to #2,143 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,539 in 2015 to #2,143 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Younes?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,800
68 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,143
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,794 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Younes sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,794 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Younes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Youness were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Younes was born before 2019 — so the typical Younes is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
645
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (310).

Is Younes rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,268
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,396
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (68)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,143
2025

Spellings of Younes

Younes is not the most common spelling — Yousef is, with 37.4% against Younes's 3.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Younes is used

Across 2016–2025, Younes was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 45,807 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Younes around the world

Where Younes ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #658
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2011–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1951–2025
    #116
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2022–2025
    #246
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #738
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Younes by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,143
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,268
Best rank ever
#2,143
2025
Peak year
2025
68 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
645
Count in 2025
68

Names similar to Younes

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Younes

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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