Younus

#5,594 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Younus has been given to 106 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #5,594 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Younus, 2025

1 in 195,000

Younus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Younus?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,594
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Younus 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Younus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Younuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Younus was born before 2021 — so the typical Younus is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
67.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
106
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Choose a decade

2020s — 67.0% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Younus 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
+1,220
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,446
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,393
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (17)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,594
2025

Spellings of Younus

Younus is not the most common spelling — Young is, with 32.7% against Younus's 1.6%.

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.

Younus around the world

Where Younus 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
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2025
    #3,724
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

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.

Younus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,594
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,446
Best rank ever
#5,594
2025
Peak year
2025
17 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
106
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Younus

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Sibling names for Younus

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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