Yannis is a rare spelling. It is summarised with John, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Yannis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,948 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,948 in 2023; #4,043 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Yannis in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,043 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,948.
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Yannis: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,948 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 43 (2023).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Yannis, making it the 4,043rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 65 places from #3,978 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 28 boys named Yannis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,948, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #6,666 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Yannis, making it the 10,080th most common girls’ name of the year, down 547 places from #9,533 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 11 girls named Yannis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #7,624, reached in 2023. The most girls given the name in a single year was 16, in 2009. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yannis in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 743 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 260 babies named Yannis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 281 US boys were named Yannis; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Yannis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,080 | 27 | #4,043 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,533 | 28 | #3,978 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,624 | 43 | #2,948 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,228 | 43 | #2,960 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,158 | 41 | #3,019 |
| 2020 | 6 | #15,010 | 24 | #4,269 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,567 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,759 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,516 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #8,125 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,666 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,923 | 13 | #6,614 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,170 | 13 | #6,591 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,174 | 11 | #7,530 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,699 | 9 | #8,737 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,210 | 9 | #8,765 |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,041 | 12 | #7,216 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,451 | 16 | #5,758 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,634 | 9 | #8,888 |
| 2006 | 6 | #17,067 | 23 | #4,217 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,621 |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,035 | 13 | #6,125 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,701 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,555 | 18 | #4,489 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,515 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,822 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #6,025 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,533 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,089 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #7,120 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,394 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,530 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,677 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,412 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,510 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,463 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,804 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,219 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,265 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,862 |
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).