Meaning not yet researched.
Younis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 68 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,876 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,876 in 2024; #2,144 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Younis in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,144 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,876.
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Younis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 68 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,876 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 86 (2024).
In 2025, 68 US boys were named Younis, making it the 2,144th most common boys’ name of the year, down 268 places from #1,876 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 86 boys named Younis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,876, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 86. For comparison, it was #4,177 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Younis in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 7 babies. In all, 721 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 381 babies named Younis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 561 US boys were named Younis; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,119 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Younis ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #991 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yunus (1,369 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Youness, Yonnis and Yoenis are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Youness (49), Yonnis (10), Yoenis (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Younis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #991 | #2,088 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,109 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,181 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,073 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,199 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 68 | #2,144 |
| 2024 | — | — | 86 | #1,876 |
| 2023 | — | — | 61 | #2,314 |
| 2022 | — | — | 65 | #2,241 |
| 2021 | — | — | 58 | #2,371 |
| 2020 | — | — | 43 | #2,844 |
| 2019 | — | — | 54 | #2,487 |
| 2018 | — | — | 47 | #2,671 |
| 2017 | — | — | 43 | #2,839 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,227 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,177 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #5,060 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,975 |
| 2012 | — | — | 15 | #5,987 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,565 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,243 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #14,467 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #7,173 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #12,328 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,978 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #13,328 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #11,326 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,459 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,690 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).