Yunus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic form of Jonah, the Qur'anic prophet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yunus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 415(inferred from the name graph)
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 2.3K
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 3.5K
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 Yunus 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 415 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Younus in PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh, 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(measured from records)
Arabic form of Jonah, the Qur'anic prophet.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yunus 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 | — | 1,117 | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yunus is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, dolphin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, Ilık ve sıcak denizlerde yaşayan etçil memeli hayvan.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Se Jonas.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, Qur'anic sura title; the prophet Jonah.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, Jonah (Qur'anic prophet)
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ibn Yunusb. 950EGEgyptian mathematician (c. 950–1009)
- Yunus Pashab. 1450TRGrand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1517)
- Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlub. 1879TRTurkish journalist (1879–1945)
- Yunus Bülbülb. 1955TRTurkish actor and singer (born 1955)
- Yunus Qanunib. 1957AFAfghan politician
- Yunus Mallıb. 1992DETurkish-German association football player (born 1992)
- Yunus Emre Sonsırmab. 1992TRTurkish basketball player (born 1992)
- Yunus Emre Başarb. 1995TRTurkish wrestler (born 1995)
- Yunus Akgünb. 2000TRTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Yunus Musahb. 2002USAmerican soccer player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 476 | #47,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 304 | #65,244 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 200 | #86,657 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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
- What does the name Yunus mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic form of Jonah, the Qur'anic prophet. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Yunus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 198 thousand people named Yunus in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yunus.
- Is Yunus a male or female name?
- Yunus 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 Yunus?
- In the etymology graph, Jonas, Jonah and Younes are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Yunus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,117 people named Yunus in 2020, about 1 in 298 thousand residents.
- How common is Yunus compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yunus 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/yunusThe 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, “Yunus” — the 76th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.