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Yiannis

#4,533 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Giannis

Yiannis has been given to 400 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #4,533 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Yiannis, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yiannis: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Giannis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yiannis means

Yiannis is a alternate transcription of Giannis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giannis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 400 boys were recorded with the name Yiannis between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,685 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,532 in 2020 to #4,533 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,664 in 2015 to #4,533 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 Yiannis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,533
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yiannis 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yiannis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yianniss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yiannis was born before 2017 — so the typical Yiannis is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
400
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Yiannis 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
−848
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,131
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.2%
Peak was 2024 (31)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,685
2024

Spellings of Yiannis

Yiannis is not the most common spelling — Gianni is, with 76.0% against Yiannis'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 Yiannis is used

Across 1910–2025, Yiannis was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 775,226 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 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. Yiannis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yiannis around the world

Where Yiannis 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
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2013
    #6,320
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2018–2021
    #2,792
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1970–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Yiannis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,533
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1
Best rank ever
#3,685
2024
Peak year
2024
31 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
400
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Yiannis

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

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Sibling names for Yiannis

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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