Yanni
Yanni is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,884 among girls’ names and #5,592 among boys’, #8,830 among all names counting both); 1,061 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Yanni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yanni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yanni?
#5,592 among boys’ names, 2025
Yanni rose from #7,043 in 2015 to #5,592 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 10.0 per million.
52 babies in 1998, the peak
Yanni peaked in 1998, when 52 babies were given it (44 boys, #2,122 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,884 | 17 | #5,592 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,419 | 17 | #5,645 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,029 | 19 | #5,241 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,521 | 14 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,404 | 23 | #4,484 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,927 | 18 | #5,218 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,313 | 18 | #5,330 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,586 | 19 | #5,092 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,579 | 18 | #5,286 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,850 | 18 | #5,301 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,113 | 12 | #7,043 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,101 | 19 | #5,054 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,919 | 14 | #6,225 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,093 | 20 | #4,850 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,291 | 19 | #4,972 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,229 | 22 | #4,514 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,417 | 31 | #3,545 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,339 | 34 | #3,340 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,590 | 22 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,258 | 30 | #3,520 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,099 | 28 | #3,521 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,235 | 26 | #3,629 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,369 | 36 | #2,774 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,345 | 25 | #3,547 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,893 | 34 | #2,790 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 25 | #3,411 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 24 | #3,368 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,103 | 44 | #2,122 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,681 | 31 | #2,608 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 26 | #2,904 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,349 | 32 | #2,436 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,395 | 25 | #2,941 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,533 | 15 | #4,210 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,403 |
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 Yanni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,061 Americans recorded as Yanni, 26% are girls and 74% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yanni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yanni, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,061 Americans ever recorded as Yanni. The median Yanni alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,398 people named Yanni (573 women and girls, 825 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 894 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 121 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 355 |
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. 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,350 babies since 1880, Yanni is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 66 babies (39%), 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 Yanni
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 Yanni and names like it
- Compare Yanni and YoniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sYanni peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yanni since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Yanni.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yanni alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.