Yannick
Yannick was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,196 among boys’ names; 1,073 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Yannick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yannick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yannick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yannick is “a male given name from French.”
From French Yannick, from Breton Yannig.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yannick?
#5,196 among boys’ names, 2025
Yannick fell from #3,020 in 2015 to #5,196 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 11.1 per million.
54 babies in 2016, the peak
Yannick peaked in 2016, when 54 boys were given it, #2,410 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,196 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,429 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,057 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,273 | 21.2 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,766 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,488 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,104 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,437 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 54 | #2,415 | 29.2 |
| 2016 | 54 | #2,410 | 28.5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,020 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,363 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,257 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,998 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,098 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,721 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,026 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,137 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,790 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,769 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,562 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,853 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,255 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,663 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,879 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,527 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,333 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,635 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,745 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,385 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,294 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,317 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,651 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,737 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,804 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,366 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,773 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,953 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,948 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,884 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,971 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,094 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,861 | 16.7 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,988 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,492 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yannick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yannick has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yannick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yannick, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,073 Americans ever recorded as Yannick. The median Yannick alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,624 people named Yannick (98 women and girls, 1,526 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 917 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 | 297 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 334 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 417 |
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,175 babies since 1880, Yannick is the most given (91% of them).
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 Yannick
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 Yannick and names like it
- Compare Yannick and YanickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYannick peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yannick since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Yannick: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Yannick.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yannick alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.