Giannis
Giannis was given to 97 boys in 2025, #1,692 among boys’ names; 1,083 Americans have been recorded with it since 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Giannis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 6.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Giannis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Giannis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Giannis is “a transliteration of the Greek male given name Γιάννης (Giánnis).”
Transliteration of Greek Γιάννης (Giánnis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of John.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Giannis?
#1,692 among boys’ names, 2025
Giannis entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #1,692 in 2025.
168 babies in 2022, the peak
Giannis peaked in 2022, when 168 babies were given it (162 boys, #1,217 among boys’ names). The 102 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,692 | 56.8 |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,462 | 72.0 |
| 2023 | 138 | #1,361 | 80.7 |
| 2022 | 162 | #1,217 | 92.8 |
| 2021 | 155 | #1,237 | 88.6 |
| 2020 | 126 | #1,388 | 73.0 |
| 2019 | 144 | #1,290 | 80.3 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,242 | 33.6 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,021 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,127 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #12,695 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Giannis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,083 Americans recorded as Giannis, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 97 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Giannis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Giannis, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,083 Americans ever recorded as Giannis. The median Giannis alive today is 4 years old; half are between 3 and 6.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,826 babies since 1880, Giannis is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 102 of their 139 babies (73%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Giannis
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Giannis and names like it
- Compare Giannis and YannisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGiannis peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Giannis since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Giannis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Giannis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.