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Youness

Boys' name

Alternative spelling of Younès

Youness has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 2002. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Youness, 2018

1 in 502,000

Youness over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Youness: meaning, origin, and history

Alternative spelling of Younès

Arabic

What Youness means

Youness is a alternative spelling of Younès.

Origin, language, and formation

Youness is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Younès.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 49 boys were recorded with the name Youness between 2002 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2003; its best national rank was #9,550 in 2003.

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 Youness?

Youness had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 259,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Youness 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 2018 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Youness. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Younesss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Youness was born before 2011 — so the typical Youness is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
49
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Youness 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (7)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,550
2003

Spellings of Youness

Youness is not the most common spelling — Younis is, with 51.0% against Youness's 3.5%.

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.

Youness around the world

Where Youness 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
    1999–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1972–2025
    #1,007
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2019
    #2,769
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Youness by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,550
2003
Peak year
2003
7 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
49
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Youness

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

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Sibling names for Youness

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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