Yanick — boys' name
57 babies named Yanick in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Yanick was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Yanick in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yanick
The Social Security Administration has registered 57 babies named Yanick between 1989 and 2016, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yanick currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Yanick is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 45 additional births since 1976.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yanick performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 24 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Yanick shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yanick in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 57 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Yanick at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Yanick popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1989
- Peak year (1989)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
57 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 8 births in a single year.
Yanick popularity over time — girls
45 total births recorded since 1976 (Yanick as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Yanick accounts for 44% of total recorded use across both genders.
Yanick by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 24 births that decade — 42% of Yanick's all-time total
Yanick decade highlights
- Peak decade 24 births
- Runner-up 13 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Yanick's strongest decade
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.