Meaning not yet researched.
Giannis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,217 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,217 in 2022; #1,692 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Giannis in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,692 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,217.
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Giannis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,217 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 162 (2022).
In 2025, 97 US boys were named Giannis, making it the 1,692nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 230 places from #1,462 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 124 boys named Giannis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,217, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 162. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Giannis in 11 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2014 with 5 babies. In all, 1,083 US babies have been given the name, 3.4% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 834 babies named Giannis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,041 US boys were named Giannis; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 162. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,609 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Giannis ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,145 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include John (5,204,377 babies since 1880), Jack (759,677 babies since 1880), Joan (488,939 babies since 1880) and Jean (483,475 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gionnis and Giannys are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Gionnis (6), Giannys (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Giannis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,145 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,145 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,180 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,342 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,342 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,345 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,629 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #1,967 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).