Younes
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Jonah; Qur'anic prophet Yunus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Younes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 622(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.1K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 301 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 622 (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Jonah; Qur'anic prophet Yunus
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Younes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #62 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 622 | — | Younes | 136 |
| DZ Algeria | #56 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Younes | 72 |
| FR France | #468 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 18K | Younes | 301 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,090 | 1 in 9.8K | 5.1K | Younes | 73 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Younes | 11 |
| BE Belgium | #637 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 68 | Younes | 83 |
| YT Mayotte | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 15 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mirza Kuchik Khanb. 1880IRnot in their usual nameIranian revolutionary (1880-1921)
- Younes Nazarianb. 1929USAmerican businessman
- Younes Megrib. 1951MAMoroccan Singer
- Younes Bouabb. 1979MAMoroccan actor
- Younes Al Shibanib. 1981LYLibyan footballer
- Mister Youb. 1984MAnot in their usual nameFrench-Moroccan rapper
- Younes Nemouchib. 1993DZAlgerian boxer
- Younes Tahab. 2002NLDutch football player
- Younes Ebnoutalibb. 2003DEGerman footballer (born 2003)
- Younes FerhiTNTunisian actor and screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 256 | #13,684 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 256 | #13,644 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 189 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 68 | #20,849 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Younes mean, and where does it come from?
- Jonah; Qur'anic prophet Yunus Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Younes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Younes in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled younes.
- How do you pronounce Younes?
- A machine transcription gives /iun/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Younes a male or female name?
- Younes is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Younes?
- In the etymology graph, Yunus, Jonas and Jonah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Younes?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,090 people named Younes, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Younes compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Younes is the 62nd most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/younesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Younes” — the 62nd most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.