Younus
Younus was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,594 among boys’ names; 106 Americans have been recorded with it since 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Younus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Younus?
#5,594 among boys’ names, 2025
Younus rose from #13,987 in 2015 to #5,594 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 10.0 per million.
17 babies in 2025, the peak
Younus peaked in 2025, when 17 boys were given it, #5,594 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 13 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,594 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,814 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,777 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,803 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,563 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #8,040 | 5.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,199 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,704 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,987 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #12,064 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #12,080 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #14,274 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Younus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Younus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Younus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Younus, and how old are they?
An estimated 105 Americans named Younus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Younus (0 women and girls, 239 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 37 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.5 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,123 babies since 1880, Younus is the seventh most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 355 babies (4.8%), the fifth 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 Younus
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 Younus and names like it
- Compare Younus and YunusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYounus peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Younus.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Younus alive today were born 2013-2025.
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