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Giannis

#1,692 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Ioannes

Giannis has been given to 1,083 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #1,692 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 162 recorded.

Babies named Giannis, 2025

1 in 34,200

Giannis over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giannis: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ioannes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Giannis means

Giannis is a variant of Ioannes.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Giannis (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Giannis is used in English.

Giannis comes through Greek Γιάννης.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ioannes, Γιάννης and John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,046 boys were recorded with the name Giannis between 2014 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 162 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,217 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,388 in 2020 to #1,692 in 2025.

In the United States, 37 girls were recorded with the name Giannis between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #12,580 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,602 in 2020 to #15,705 in 2025.

How common is Giannis?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 17,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,692
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giannis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giannis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gianniss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giannis was born before 2021 — so the typical Giannis is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,046
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Choose a decade

2020s — 76.7% of all recorded uses (802).

Is Giannis rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−230
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−304
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
59.9%
Peak was 2022 (162)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
64.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,217
2022

Spellings of Giannis

Giannis is not the most common spelling — Gianni is, with 73.2% against Giannis's 4.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Giannis is used

Across 2016–2025, Giannis was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 17,229 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 6,250
  2. 2Illinois1 in 9,091
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 11,111
  4. 4New York1 in 11,111
  5. 5Florida1 in 12,500
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 16,667
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  8. 8California1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Giannis around the world

Where Giannis ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2025
    #3,548
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Giannis by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,692
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 304
Best rank ever
#1,217
2022
Peak year
2022
162 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,046
Count in 2025
97

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,705
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,103
Best rank ever
#12,580
2023
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
37
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Giannis

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Giannis

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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