Younis
Younis was given to 68 boys in 2025, #2,144 among boys’ names; 721 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 Younis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Younis?
#2,144 among boys’ names, 2025
Younis rose from #4,175 in 2015 to #2,144 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 39.8 per million.
86 babies in 2024, the peak
Younis peaked in 2024, when 86 boys were given it, #1,876 among boys’ names. The 68 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,144 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 86 | #1,876 | 49.9 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,313 | 35.7 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,240 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,370 | 33.2 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,843 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,486 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,670 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,838 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,226 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,175 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #5,056 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,972 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,981 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,559 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,240 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,460 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,168 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,322 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,971 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,320 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,319 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,452 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,683 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Younis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Younis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Younis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Younis, and how old are they?
An estimated 715 Americans named Younis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 522 people named Younis (14 women and girls, 508 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 348 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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).
Where are babies named Younis born?
The states with the most babies named Younis are New York, Texas and California, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #991 | 2.9× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,073 | 0.5× |
| California | 7 | #2,199 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,109 | 2.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,181 | 1.3× |
Where Younis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Younis is most over-represented in New York: since 1999 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Younis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,568 babies since 1880, Younis is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 427 babies (16%), the second most given that year.
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 Younis
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 Younis and names like it
- Compare Younis and YunusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYounis peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Younis since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Younis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Younis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.