Yannis
Yannis is given to both girls and boys: 10 girls and 27 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,077 among girls’ names and #4,042 among boys’, #6,951 among all names counting both); 743 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yannis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yannis?
#4,042 among boys’ names, 2025
Yannis rose from #6,661 in 2015 to #4,042 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 15.8 per million.
58 babies in 2023, the peak
Yannis peaked in 2023, when 58 babies were given it (43 boys, #2,947 among boys’ names). The 37 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,077 | 27 | #4,042 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,528 | 28 | #3,976 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,619 | 43 | #2,947 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,223 | 43 | #2,958 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,153 | 41 | #3,018 |
| 2020 | 6 | #15,005 | 24 | #4,265 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 32 | #3,564 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 16 | #5,755 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 17 | #5,512 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #8,120 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 13 | #6,661 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,917 | 13 | #6,609 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,165 | 13 | #6,586 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,168 | 11 | #7,524 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,695 | 9 | #8,730 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,204 | 9 | #8,759 |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,037 | 12 | #7,211 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,447 | 16 | #5,753 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,629 | 9 | #8,882 |
| 2006 | 6 | #17,062 | 23 | #4,213 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,614 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,029 | 13 | #6,119 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 11 | #6,694 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,549 | 18 | #4,483 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 9 | #7,508 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,814 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 11 | #6,019 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,525 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 10 | #6,083 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 8 | #7,113 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,387 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 14 | #4,524 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #8,671 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,404 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,503 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,454 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,798 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #6,215 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #7,262 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,860 |
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 Yannis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 743 Americans recorded as Yannis, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yannis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yannis, and how old are they?
An estimated 733 Americans named Yannis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 593 people named Yannis (135 women and girls, 458 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 485 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,538 babies since 1880, Yannis is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 224 babies (17%), 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 Yannis
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 Yannis and names like it
- Compare Yannis and YanisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYannis peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yannis since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Yannis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yannis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.