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Yunis

#3,377 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jonah

Yunis has been given to 441 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #3,377 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Yunis, 2025

1 in 94,700

Yunis over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yunis: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jonah

Arabic

What Yunis means

Yunis is a form of Jonah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yunis → Jonah. The family’s meaning is “dove”, recorded in English with the source elements yônâh.

Origin, language, and formation

Yunis is used in Azerbaijani. Its origins include Arabic.

Yunis comes through Arabic يُونُس.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jonah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 441 boys were recorded with the name Yunis between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,209 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,690 in 2020 to #3,377 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,984 in 2015 to #3,377 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 Yunis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,377
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yunis 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yunis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yuniss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yunis was born before 2018 — so the typical Yunis is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
441
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (194).

Is Yunis 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
−168
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,313
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,607
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.1%
Peak was 2024 (38)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,209
2024

Spellings of Yunis

Yunis is not the most common spelling — Luis is, with 87.1% against Yunis's 0.13%.

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 Yunis is used

Across 1910–2025, Yunis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 745,480 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Minnesota1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

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. Yunis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yunis around the world

Where Yunis 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
    2000–2025
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2012
    #6,194
    in 2012
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #2,328
    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.

Yunis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,377
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,313
Best rank ever
#3,209
2024
Peak year
2024
38 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
441
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Yunis

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

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Sibling names for Yunis

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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