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Yunus

#1,296 in 2025Boys' name

Of the Junian gens, through Ἰωνᾶς

Yunus has been given to 1,369 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,296 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 151 recorded.

Babies named Yunus, 2025

1 in 22,000

Yunus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yunus: meaning, origin, and history

Of the Junian gens, through Ἰωνᾶς

Arabic

What Yunus means

Yunus belongs to the name family reached through Yunus → Ἰωνᾶς → יוֹנָה → Iunius. Its meaning is “Of the Junian gens”.

Origin, language, and formation

Yunus is used in Indonesian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Yunus comes through Ancient Greek Ἰωνᾶς and Hebrew יונה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jonah, Ἰωνᾶς, יוֹנָה and Iunius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Yunus is pronounced /ˈjunus/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,369 boys were recorded with the name Yunus between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 151 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,296 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,831 in 2020 to #1,296 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,862 in 2015 to #1,296 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 Yunus?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,000
151 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,296
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,219 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yunus 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,219 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yunus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yunuss were born

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

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,369
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (675).

Is Yunus 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
+175
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+535
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,566
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (151)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,296
2025

Spellings of Yunus

Yunus is not the most common spelling — Rufus is, with 56.0% against Yunus's 2.1%.

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 Yunus is used

Across 2016–2025, Yunus was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 16,348 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 6,667
  2. 2Virginia1 in 7,692
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 8,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 10,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 10,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 14,286
  7. 7Ohio1 in 14,286
  8. 8Washington1 in 14,286

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.

Yunus around the world

Where Yunus 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
    #239
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2025
    #560
    in 2025
  • France
    1977–2025
    #466
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #808
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yunus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,296
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 535
Best rank ever
#1,296
2025
Peak year
2025
151 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,369
Count in 2025
151

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

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Sibling names for Yunus

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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