Yianni
Yianni was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,842 among boys’ names; 471 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yianni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yianni?
#5,842 among boys’ names, 2025
Yianni fell from #5,280 in 2015 to #5,842 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 9.4 per million.
22 babies in 2011, the peak
Yianni peaked in 2011, when 22 boys were given it, #4,499 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,842 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,227 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,271 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,204 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,322 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,685 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,751 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,759 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,100 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,547 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,280 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #7,029 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,390 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,119 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,499 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 12 | #7,064 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,739 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,237 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,148 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,512 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #10,111 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,409 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,224 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,118 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,208 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,897 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #6,022 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,824 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,630 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,599 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,911 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,348 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,617 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,788 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,618 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yianni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yianni has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yianni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yianni, and how old are they?
An estimated 464 Americans named Yianni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 505 people named Yianni (27 women and girls, 478 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 375 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,532 babies since 1880, Yianni is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 42 babies (38%), again the second 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 Yianni
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 Yianni and names like it
- Compare Yianni and YanniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYianni peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yianni since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Yianni.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yianni alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.