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Yanni

#5,592 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Diminutive of Yiannis

Yanni has been given to 1,061 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,592 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 44 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.

Babies named Yanni, 2025

1 in 195,000

Yanni over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Yanni over time

In 2025, Yanni went to 35% girls and 65% boys.

19922025

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.

Yanni: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Yiannis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yanni means

Yanni is a diminutive of Yiannis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yiannis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 781 boys were recorded with the name Yanni between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,122 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,218 in 2020 to #5,592 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,043 in 2015 to #5,592 in 2025.

In the United States, 280 girls were recorded with the name Yanni between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2004; its best national rank was #8,029 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,927 in 2020 to #10,884 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,113 in 2015 to #10,884 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.

How common is Yanni?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,592
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yanni 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yanni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yannis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yanni was born before 2006 — so the typical Yanni is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
781
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (291).

Is Yanni 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
+53
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−374
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,451
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.6%
Peak was 1998 (44)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,122
1998

Spellings of Yanni

Yanni is not the most common spelling — Danny is, with 81.1% against Yanni's 0.22%.

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 Yanni is used

Across 1910–2025, Yanni was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 350,087 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New 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. Yanni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yanni around the world

Where Yanni 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
    2001–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    1982–2025
    #1,591
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2012
    #514
    in 2012

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.

Yanni by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,592
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 374
Best rank ever
#2,122
1998
Peak year
1998
44 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
781
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,884
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,957
Best rank ever
#8,029
2023
Peak year
2004
14 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
280
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Yanni

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

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Sibling names for Yanni

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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