In 2025, 52 US boys were named Yanis, making it the 2,568th most common boys’ name of the year, down 126 places from #2,442 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 57 boys named Yanis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,132, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #3,771 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Yanis in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #8,438, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 13. For comparison, it was #16,327 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yanis in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 11 babies. In all, 808 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 371 babies named Yanis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 474 US boys were named Yanis; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,848 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yanis ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,820 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Yanise, Yahnis and Yanais are summarised on this page.