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Yanick

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Diminutive of Yann

Yanick has been given to 102 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1989, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% boys, 44% girls all-time.

Babies named Yanick, 2016

1 in 524,000

Yanick over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yanick over time

In 2016, Yanick went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19762016

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yanick: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Yann

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yanick means

Yanick is a diminutive of Yann.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yanick is used in Breton and French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ja.nik/ for Yanick.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yann.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 boys were recorded with the name Yanick between 1989 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1989; its best national rank was #6,209 in 1989.

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Yanick between 1976 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1981; its best national rank was #6,313 in 1981.

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 Yanick?

Yanick had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 524,000
7 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 271,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
363,362 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yanick 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 2016 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 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yanick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yanicks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yanick was born before 2003 — so the typical Yanick is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
57
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2000s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Yanick 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 1989 (8)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,209
1989

Spellings of Yanick

Yanick is not the most common spelling — Nick is, with 85.1% against Yanick's 0.10%.

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 Yanick is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Yanick was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,042,200 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Yanick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yanick around the world

Where Yanick 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
    1998–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004
  • France
    1933–2025
    #3,593
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

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.

Yanick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,209
1989
Peak year
1989
8 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
57
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,313
1981
Peak year
1981
11 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yanick

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

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Sibling names for Yanick

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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