# Giannis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/giannis/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Yannis |
| US babies named this | 1,083 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,046 / 37 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 17, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Greek Γιάννης (Giánnis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of John.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | 16,383 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,607 |
| 2022 | 6 | 14,168 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,585 |
| 2024 | 7 | 12,622 |
| 2025 | 5 | 15,709 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | 12,701 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,132 |
| 2017 | 26 | 4,025 |
| 2018 | 61 | 2,243 |
| 2019 | 144 | 1,290 |
| 2020 | 126 | 1,388 |
| 2021 | 155 | 1,237 |
| 2022 | 162 | 1,217 |
| 2023 | 138 | 1,361 |
| 2024 | 124 | 1,462 |
| 2025 | 97 | 1,692 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 4 | 3,589 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Giannis

- Giannis Okkas, Cypriot footballer
- Yannis Karagiannis, Cypriot singer
- Giannis Satsias, Cypriot association football player
- Karim Ziani, Algerian and French footballer
- Yannis Papanikolaou, association football player
- Yanis David, French triple jumper from Guadaloupe
- Yanis Lenne, French handball player
- Yanis Karabelyov, Bulgarian association football player (born 1996)
- Yanis Rahmani, French association football player
- Yanis Merdji, Algerian and French footballer
- Yanis Hamache, French association football player
- Yanis Issoufou, French-Nigerien-Moroccan footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.