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Yann

#7,655 in 2025Boys' name

Form of John

Yann has been given to 346 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #7,655 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Yann, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yann: meaning, origin, and history

Form of John

Hebrew and Breton

What Yann means

Yann is a form of John.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yann → John. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for John.

Origin, language, and formation

Yann is used in Breton and French. Its origins include Hebrew and Breton.

Yann comes through Latin Ioannes.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Yann is pronounced /jan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 346 boys were recorded with the name Yann between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2006; its best national rank was #4,666 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,695 in 2020 to #7,655 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,518 in 2015 to #7,655 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yann?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,655
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yann 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yanns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yann was born before 2010 — so the typical Yann is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
346
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Yann 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
+2,186
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,040
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,863
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.0%
Peak was 2006 (20)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,666
2006

Spellings of Yann

Yann is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 44.6% against Yann's 0.02%.

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 Yann is used

Across 1910–2025, Yann was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,631,372 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 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. Yann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yann around the world

Where Yann 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2012
    #616
    in 2012
  • France
    1908–2025
    #462
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yann by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,655
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,040
Best rank ever
#4,666
2006
Peak year
2006
20 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
346
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Yann

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

YankyYanisYangYanniIannYanYannisYanielYanivYaniIvannYanalGiannYanaiYancyRyannDylannYanuelYohannVannAlannYannickJannShann

Sibling names for Yann

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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