# Yunus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yunus/  
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 | 1,369 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,369 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,215, 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 | 20 | 4,817 |
| 2012 | 35 | 3,228 |
| 2013 | 31 | 3,496 |
| 2014 | 35 | 3,231 |
| 2015 | 42 | 2,863 |
| 2016 | 52 | 2,475 |
| 2017 | 65 | 2,129 |
| 2018 | 75 | 1,978 |
| 2019 | 85 | 1,815 |
| 2020 | 82 | 1,831 |
| 2021 | 85 | 1,840 |
| 2022 | 106 | 1,641 |
| 2023 | 127 | 1,439 |
| 2024 | 124 | 1,471 |
| 2025 | 151 | 1,296 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 57 | 602 |
| 2012 | 74 | 507 |
| 2013 | 93 | 434 |
| 2014 | 84 | 471 |
| 2015 | 74 | 523 |
| 2016 | 97 | 432 |
| 2017 | 99 | 434 |
| 2018 | 100 | 422 |
| 2019 | 125 | 356 |
| 2020 | 118 | 368 |
| 2021 | 145 | 319 |
| 2022 | 155 | 290 |
| 2023 | 171 | 272 |
| 2024 | 187 | 254 |
| 2025 | 206 | 239 |

## People named Yunus

- Ibn Yunus, Egyptian mathematician (c. 950–1009)
- Yunus Musah, American soccer player
- Yunus ibn Habib, 8th-century Iranian poet and linguist
- Yunus Qanuni, Afghan politician

## 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.