Yunis
Yunis was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,377 among boys’ names; 441 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yunis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yunis?
#3,377 among boys’ names, 2025
Yunis rose from #5,984 in 2015 to #3,377 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 20.5 per million.
38 babies in 2024, the peak
Yunis peaked in 2024, when 38 boys were given it, #3,209 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,377 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,209 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,448 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,611 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,486 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,690 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,341 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,600 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,772 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,984 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,984 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,535 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,394 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,843 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,483 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,770 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,965 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,747 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,605 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,409 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,436 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,178 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,862 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,529 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,788 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yunis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yunis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yunis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yunis, and how old are they?
An estimated 437 Americans named Yunis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 400 people named Yunis (73 women and girls, 327 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 271 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above 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 5,568 babies since 1880, Yunis is the sixth most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 427 babies (8.2%), again the sixth 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 Yunis
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 Yunis and names like it
- Compare Yunis and YunusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYunis peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yunis since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yunis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yunis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.