Younus
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jaʊnəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Younus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 26K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 415as Yunus
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Younus itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 named Yunus, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yunus in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, US United States and 2 more, Юнус in TJ Tajikistan, AZ Azerbaijan and Yunuş in TM Turkmenistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Younus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #76 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 415 | — | Yunus | 143 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Younus | 56 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Yunus | 52 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | Younus | 84 |
| DE Germany | #973 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Yunus | 132 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #977 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 453 | Юнус | 15 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #463 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | listed | Юнус | 9 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #355 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Yunuş | 13 |
| US United States | — | 1,117as Yunus | 1 in 298K | 1.1K | Yunus | 157 |
| CY Cyprus | #365 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Yunus | 18 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
- Mohammad Younusb. 1984BDcricketer
- Mohammad Younus AkhundzadaAFAfghan minister
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 656 | #36,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 427 | #49,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 201 | #86,341 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Younus?
- A machine transcription gives /jaʊnəs/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Younus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 198 thousand people named Yunus in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Younus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,117 people named Yunus in 2020, about 1 in 298 thousand residents.
- How common is Younus compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Younus is the 76th most common given name of 264,080 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/younusThe 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, “Younus” — the 76th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.