Yanis
Yanis was given to 52 boys in 2025, #2,568 among boys’ names; 808 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yanis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yanis?
#2,568 among boys’ names, 2025
Yanis rose from #3,770 in 2015 to #2,568 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 30.4 per million.
81 babies in 2021, the peak
Yanis peaked in 2021, when 81 babies were given it (68 boys, #2,131 among boys’ names). The 52 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 52 | #2,568 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,180 | 57 | #2,442 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,505 | 56 | #2,438 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,222 | 62 | #2,323 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,433 | 68 | #2,131 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 46 | #2,725 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 42 | #2,940 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #18,020 | 36 | #3,235 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 29 | #3,769 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 26 | #4,091 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,321 | 29 | #3,770 |
| 2014 | 8 | #13,014 | 25 | #4,127 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,442 | 18 | #5,158 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #7,022 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 14 | #6,235 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,883 | 10 | #8,106 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,392 | 14 | #6,413 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,567 | 11 | #7,678 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,404 | 19 | #4,981 |
| 2006 | 6 | #17,061 | 10 | #7,971 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,961 | 5 | #13,298 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,728 | 6 | #11,299 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,716 | 5 | #12,702 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #8,424 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,290 | 9 | #7,507 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,359 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #14,064 | 5 | #11,271 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yanis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 808 Americans recorded as Yanis, 17% are girls and 83% boys. In 2025 it went to 52 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yanis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yanis, and how old are they?
An estimated 801 Americans named Yanis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 674 people named Yanis (247 women and girls, 427 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 445 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,323 babies since 1880, Yanis is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 382 babies (14%), the third most given that year.
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 Yanis
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 Yanis and names like it
- Compare Yanis and YunusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYanis peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yanis since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Yanis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yanis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.