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Younis

#2,144 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yunus

Younis has been given to 721 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #2,144 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Younis, 2025

1 in 48,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Younis: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yunus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Younis means

Younis is a alternate transcription of Yunus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Younis → 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, 721 boys were recorded with the name Younis between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,876 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,843 in 2020 to #2,144 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,175 in 2015 to #2,144 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.

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How common is Younis?

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
#2,144
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,794 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Younis 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 Younis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Youniss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Younis was born before 2020 — so the typical Younis is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
721
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (381).

Is Younis 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
−268
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+699
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,031
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.72×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.1%
Peak was 2024 (86)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,876
2024

Spellings of Younis

Younis is not the most common spelling — Louis is, with 97.9% against Younis's 0.17%.

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 Younis is used

Across 2016–2025, Younis was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 25,696 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 8,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 10,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 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.

Younis around the world

Where Younis 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
    1997–2025
    #953
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2018–2019
    #764
    in 2019
  • France
    1981–2025
    #3,162
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024

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

Younis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,144
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 699
Best rank ever
#1,876
2024
Peak year
2024
86 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
721
Count in 2025
68

Names similar to Younis

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

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Sibling names for Younis

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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