Yiannis
Yiannis was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,533 among boys’ names; 400 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yiannis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yiannis?
#4,533 among boys’ names, 2025
Yiannis rose from #6,664 in 2015 to #4,533 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 13.5 per million.
31 babies in 2024, the peak
Yiannis peaked in 2024, when 31 boys were given it, #3,685 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,533 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,685 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,995 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,433 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,238 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,532 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,542 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,325 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,513 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,134 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,664 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #8,098 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,992 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #14,165 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,939 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,299 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,313 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #12,007 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,080 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,910 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,855 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,625 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #6,023 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,822 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #8,084 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,819 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,295 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,745 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,209 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,395 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,458 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,243 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,684 | 4.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,265 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yiannis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yiannis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yiannis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yiannis, and how old are they?
An estimated 394 Americans named Yiannis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 350 people named Yiannis (11 women and girls, 339 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 249 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,951 babies since 1880, Yiannis is the third most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 112 babies (21%), again the third 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 Yiannis
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 Yiannis and names like it
- Compare Yiannis and YanisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYiannis peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yiannis since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yiannis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yiannis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.