Younes
A Hebrew name meaning "dove," carried in Poland through Arabic use. Fewer than a hundred people here hold it, all of them men, so meeting one stays memorable.
Younes Pronunciation
Younes is pronounced ih-o-OO-nes (/ɨɔˈunɛs/).
What Younes means
Where Younes comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Younes reaches Polish ears from Arabic, though its root is Hebrew. Behind it stands Yonah, the Hebrew word for dove, gołąb. Arabic took that name as Yunus, the form the Quran uses for the prophet whom a great fish swallows and returns to shore. Younes is the spelling carried west through French-speaking North Africa, and you meet it on Moroccan and Algerian identity documents today.
The dove sits inside the name at the level of meaning. Yonah was the plain word a Hebrew speaker used for the bird, so the dove belongs to the name from the start. In the biblical and Quranic story the man named for the dove is swallowed by the fish and prays his way back to land. Younes means dove.
In a Warsaw class register the name lands between Antoni and Zofia without a stumble. There is no Polish name-day for it, so a child called Younes may borrow a friend's imieniny or skip the custom. The origin stays legible all the same: Hebrew Yonah, Arabic Yunus, the dove.
How many people are named Younes
1 in 242570 men in Poland is named Younes. 88 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3763 among male names.
Younes's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Younes as a middle name
Younes is a first name for 88 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4095th, between Yogeshbhai (7) and Yue (7).
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#4093 Yehonatan7
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#4094 Yogeshbhai7
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#4095 Younes7
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#4096 Yue7
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#4097 Yuriy7