Yunus
Yunus was given to 151 boys in 2025, #1,296 among boys’ names; 1,369 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Yunus 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 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yunus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yunus mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Yunus is “a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Jonah or Jonas”
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یونس (yûnüs), from Arabic يُونُس (yūnus), from Ancient Greek Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs), from Hebrew יונה (yônā).
/juˈnus/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yunus?
#1,296 among boys’ names, 2025
Yunus rose from #2,862 in 2015 to #1,296 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 88.4 per million.
151 babies in 2025, the peak
Yunus peaked in 2025, when 151 boys were given it, #1,296 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 124 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 151 | #1,296 | 88.4 |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,471 | 72.0 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,439 | 74.2 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,641 | 60.7 |
| 2021 | 85 | #1,839 | 48.6 |
| 2020 | 82 | #1,831 | 47.5 |
| 2019 | 85 | #1,815 | 47.4 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,977 | 41.3 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,128 | 35.1 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,475 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,862 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,229 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,494 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,225 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,815 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,094 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,546 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,916 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,368 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,682 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,625 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,128 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,258 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,901 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,215 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,684 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,862 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,600 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,991 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,400 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,094 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,473 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yunus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yunus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yunus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yunus, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,369 Americans ever recorded as Yunus. The median Yunus alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,117 people named Yunus (4 women and girls, 1,113 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 708 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 23 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 281 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Yunus born?
The states with the most babies named Yunus are New York, Texas and California, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 24 | #638 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,131 | 0.6× |
| California | 20 | #1,082 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 12 | #750 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 10 | #725 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,019 | 1.2× |
| Washington | 6 | #997 | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #806 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,252 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,463 | 0.7× |
Where Yunus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yunus is most over-represented in New York: since 1988 it was given 2.4 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 Yunus 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 4,931 babies since 1880, Yunus is the most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 151 of their 407 babies (37%), again the 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 Yunus
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 Yunus and names like it
- Compare Yunus and YanisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYunus peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yunus since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Yunus: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yunus.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yunus alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.