Younes
Younes was given to 68 boys in 2025, #2,143 among boys’ names; 645 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Younes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Younes?
#2,143 among boys’ names, 2025
Younes rose from #4,539 in 2015 to #2,143 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 39.8 per million.
68 babies in 2025, the peak
Younes peaked in 2025, when 68 boys were given it, #2,143 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 67 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,143 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,189 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,343 | 35.1 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,094 | 22.9 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,970 | 24.0 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,411 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,789 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,166 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,219 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,618 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,539 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,243 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,391 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,709 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,100 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,567 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,094 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,681 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,568 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,632 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #7,078 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,515 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,802 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,620 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,524 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,299 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,116 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Younes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Younes has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Younes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Younes, and how old are they?
An estimated 639 Americans named Younes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 977 people named Younes (8 women and girls, 969 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 340 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,177 babies since 1880, Younes is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 355 babies (19%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Younes
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Younes and names like it
- Compare Younes and YunusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYounes peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Younes since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Younes.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Younes alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.