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Yianni

#5,842 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Yiannis

Yianni has been given to 471 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #5,842 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Yianni, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yianni: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Yiannis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yianni means

Yianni is a diminutive of Yiannis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yiannis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 471 boys were recorded with the name Yianni between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2011; its best national rank was #4,409 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,685 in 2020 to #5,842 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,280 in 2015 to #5,842 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 Yianni?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,842
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yianni 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yianni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yiannis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yianni was born before 2011 — so the typical Yianni is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
471
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2010s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Yianni 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
−615
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−157
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−562
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2011 (22)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,409
2004

Spellings of Yianni

Yianni is not the most common spelling — Gianni is, with 67.4% against Yianni's 2.0%.

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 Yianni is used

Across 1910–2025, Yianni was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 508,333 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Yianni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yianni around the world

Where Yianni 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
    1998–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • Canada
    2000–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yianni by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,842
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 157
Best rank ever
#4,409
2004
Peak year
2011
22 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
471
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Yianni

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

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Sibling names for Yianni

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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