Yanik
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yanik has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2004, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Yanik, 2006
1 in 659,000
Yanik over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Yanik?
Yanik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 659,000
- 6 of 3,956,166 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 343,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 457,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yanik sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yanik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yaniks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yanik was born before 2004 — so the typical Yanik is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 16
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Yanik 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2004 (10)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Yanik
Yanik is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 43.1% against Yanik's 0.01%.
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.
Yanik around the world
Where Yanik 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 & Wales2005–2006#4,052in 2006
- France1940–2025#5,169in 2025
- Canada1991–2013#2,635in 2013
- South Australia2010–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Yanik by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Yanik
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yanik
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.