Yanni

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to boys 73.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
1998 · 44 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
781
since 1992

Yanni over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #2,094, 1998girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079#5,39917
2024#12,1617#5,44317
2023#7,64014#5,07519
2022#12,2437#6,14714
2021#12,2067#4,36223
2020#8,40612#5,04118
2019#10,4739#5,15318
2018#8,14613#4,91819
2017#10,6899#5,11118
2016#8,39313#5,12418
2015#9,48111#6,67612
2014#9,51711#4,86619
2013#11,0009#5,92314
2012#8,63213#4,68620
2011#12,1538#4,82219
2010#11,2469#4,36622
2009#10,67910#3,47631
2008#13,8327#3,28634
2007#10,81810#4,37522
2006#8,71513#3,45130
2005#9,45211#3,44728
2004#7,82814#3,53426
2003#11,3258#2,72936
2002#13,5956#3,45025
2001#15,3525#2,74234
2000#3,29925
1999#3,27924
1998#10,1228#2,09444
1997#12,0706#2,54631
1996#2,83826
1995#11,7836#2,40032
1994#11,7786#2,84725
1993#8,7199#4,02015
1992#7,4226
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First appearance
1992

The first year at least five boys were named Yanni! It came in at #7,422, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1992, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

See more about Yanni
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 44 spots since 2024 (#5,443#5,399)
  • 358 spots since 2020 (#5,041#5,399)
  • 1,277 spots since 2015 (#6,676#5,399)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1992
  • Peaked 1998 at #2,094 (44 births)
  • Births halved by 2007, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 43,440
  • Highest: 1 in 43,440 boys born in 1998 were named Yanni (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 37.3% of all boys named Yanni (291) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
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  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s203#2,094 (1998)#3,431
2000s291#2,729 (2003)#3,379
2010s179#4,366 (2010)#5,165
2020s108#4,362 (2021)#5,245

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Yanni in 2006

girls
#8,715
13 births · 1 in 146,247 girls
boys
#3,451
30 births · 1 in 68,509 boys

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #8,715Yanni13

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #3,451Yanni30
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 146,247 of them was named Yanni, which outranked 56.6% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yanni
  1. #8,237Zyah14
  2. #8,237Zyniah14
  3. #8,237Zyra14
  4. #8,715Yanni13
  5. #8,715Aaryanna13
  6. #8,715Adaya13
  7. #8,715Adessa13
  8. #9,286Aanyah12
  9. #9,286Aaryana12
  10. #9,286Abbigaile12

Tied with 570 names at #8,715; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 8,571Bethzy#9,452#881
  2. 1,747Rihanna#2,278#531
  3. 965Yaretzi#1,803#838
  4. 921Betsy#1,668#747
  5. 612Evangeline#1,210#598
Fallers
  1. 2,134Mikalah#806#2,940
  2. 1,275Jolette#954#2,229
  3. 756Karol#818#1,574
  4. 446Litzy#388#834
  5. 305Devon#963#1,268

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 68,509 of them was named Yanni, which outranked 75.4% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yanni
  1. #3,384Valentine31
  2. #3,384Yazan31
  3. #3,384Zeb31
  4. #3,451Yanni30
  5. #3,451Adem30
  6. #3,451Adrik30
  7. #3,451Alon30
  8. #3,524Alessio29
  9. #3,524Andree29
  10. #3,524Antonino29

Tied with 72 names at #3,451; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 792Bode#1,648#856
  2. 790Talen#1,691#901
  3. 677Kingston#1,603#926
  4. 634Imanol#1,619#985
  5. 590Yandel#1,266#676
Fallers
  1. 2,208Baby#945#3,153
  2. 609Kanye#892#1,501
  3. 442Amarion#628#1,070
  4. 308Omarion#420#728
  5. 224Johnpaul#739#963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006