In 2025, 21 US boys were named Yunior, making it the 4,852nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 799 places from #5,651 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 17 boys named Yunior in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,369, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #12,057 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yunior in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 8 babies. In all, 364 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 140 babies named Yunior.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 126 US boys were named Yunior; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.