# Yannis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yannis/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 743 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 586 / 157 (21% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 389, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | 17,067 |
| 2007 | 9 | 12,634 |
| 2008 | 13 | 9,451 |
| 2009 | 16 | 8,041 |
| 2010 | 10 | 11,210 |
| 2011 | 12 | 9,699 |
| 2012 | 9 | 12,174 |
| 2013 | 5 | 19,170 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,923 |
| 2020 | 6 | 15,010 |
| 2021 | 6 | 15,158 |
| 2022 | 6 | 15,228 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,624 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,533 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10,080 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,737 |
| 2012 | 11 | 7,530 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,591 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6,614 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,666 |
| 2016 | 10 | 8,125 |
| 2017 | 17 | 5,516 |
| 2018 | 16 | 5,759 |
| 2019 | 32 | 3,567 |
| 2020 | 24 | 4,269 |
| 2021 | 41 | 3,019 |
| 2022 | 43 | 2,960 |
| 2023 | 43 | 2,948 |
| 2024 | 28 | 3,978 |
| 2025 | 27 | 4,043 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1,117 |
| 2015 | 33 | 903 |
| 2016 | 26 | 1,081 |
| 2017 | 30 | 996 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,132 |
| 2019 | 27 | 1,030 |
| 2020 | 26 | 1,051 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1,290 |
| 2022 | 24 | 1,143 |
| 2023 | 24 | 1,175 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,595 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Yannis

- Yannis Tafer, French footballer
- Yannis Salibur, French association football player
- Yannis Mbombo, footballer
- Yannis Yssaad, French bicycle racer
- Yannis Ngakoutou, Gabonese and French 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.