Yiannis is a rare spelling. It is summarised with John, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Yiannis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,687 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,687 in 2024; #4,534 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yiannis in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,534 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #3,687.
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Yiannis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,687 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 31 (2024).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Yiannis, making it the 4,534th most common boys’ name of the year, down 847 places from #3,687 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 31 boys named Yiannis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,687, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #6,669 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yiannis in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 400 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 153 babies named Yiannis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 213 US boys were named Yiannis; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 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), Jean (483,475 babies since 1880) and Juan (368,366 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).
No nicknames listed for Yiannis 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 | — | — | 23 | #4,534 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,687 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,998 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,437 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,242 |
| 2020 | — | — | 22 | #4,536 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,546 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,329 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,517 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #7,139 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,669 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #8,104 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #14,000 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #14,172 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,944 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,304 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #12,319 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #12,014 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #9,087 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,916 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,863 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #10,632 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #6,029 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,829 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #8,090 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,825 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #10,302 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,751 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #6,215 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,402 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,467 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,250 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,689 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,268 |
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).