# Younes (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/younes/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 645 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 645 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 567, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 25 | 4,102 |
| 2012 | 16 | 5,715 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,395 |
| 2014 | 18 | 5,247 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,541 |
| 2016 | 22 | 4,619 |
| 2017 | 25 | 4,223 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,169 |
| 2019 | 29 | 3,792 |
| 2020 | 33 | 3,413 |
| 2021 | 42 | 2,971 |
| 2022 | 40 | 3,096 |
| 2023 | 60 | 2,344 |
| 2024 | 67 | 2,189 |
| 2025 | 68 | 2,143 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 1,303 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,119 |
| 2013 | 19 | 1,294 |
| 2014 | 15 | 1,560 |
| 2015 | 18 | 1,380 |
| 2016 | 13 | 1,804 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,247 |
| 2018 | 25 | 1,097 |
| 2019 | 35 | 856 |
| 2020 | 31 | 921 |
| 2021 | 24 | 1,139 |
| 2022 | 31 | 967 |
| 2023 | 41 | 791 |
| 2024 | 43 | 785 |
| 2025 | 55 | 658 |

## People named Younes

- Younes Kaboul, French footballer (born 1986)
- Younes Ebnoutalib, German footballer (born 2003)
- Younes Taha, Dutch football player
- Younes Delfi, association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.