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Jannis

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Gianis

Jannis has been given to 410 babies in the U.S. since 1933. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1947, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Jannis, 2009

1 in 478,000

Jannis over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jannis: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Gianis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jannis means

Jannis is a alternate transcription of Gianis.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jannis is used in Greek and German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʝa.nis/ and /ˈja.nɪs/ for Jannis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gianis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 410 girls were recorded with the name Jannis between 1933 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,966 in 1947.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jannis?

Jannis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 478,000
8 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,006 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jannis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,006 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jannis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janniss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jannis was born before 1951 — so the typical Jannis is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
221
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1940s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (134).

Is Jannis 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (25)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,966
1947

Spellings of Jannis

Jannis is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 41.6% against Jannis's 0.05%.

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 Jannis is used

Across 1910–2025, Jannis was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 909,998 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2Mississippi1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jannis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jannis around the world

Where Jannis 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.

  • France
    2020–2020
    #6,171
    in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Jannis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,966
1947
Peak year
1947
25 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
410
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jannis

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

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Sibling names for Jannis

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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