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Yaniv

Boys' name

He will prosper

Yaniv has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1985, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Yaniv, 2023

1 in 663,000

Yaniv over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaniv: meaning, origin, and history

He will prosper

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yaniv means

Yaniv means “he will prosper”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yaniv is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ja.ˈniv/ for Yaniv.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 273 boys were recorded with the name Yaniv between 1979 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1985; its best national rank was #3,797 in 1985.

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 Yaniv?

Yaniv had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yaniv 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaniv. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yanivs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yaniv was born before 2000 — so the typical Yaniv is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
273
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Yaniv 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (12)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,797
1985

Spellings of Yaniv

Yaniv is not the most common spelling — Yahir is, with 27.0% against Yaniv's 0.59%.

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 Yaniv is used

Across 1910–2025, Yaniv was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,809,208 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Yaniv has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yaniv around the world

Where Yaniv 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
    1978–2021
    #6,266
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000

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

Yaniv 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
#3,797
1985
Peak year
1985
12 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
273
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yaniv

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

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Sibling names for Yaniv

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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