Yanis
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
Given to boys 83.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 674since 1998
Yanis over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,539 | 52 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #2,418 | 57 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #2,299 | 62 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #2,109 | 68 |
| 2020 | — | #2,689 | 46 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,897 | 42 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | — | #3,678 | 29 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,990 | 26 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,945 | 14 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | — | #7,643 | 8 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #6,935 | 9 |
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| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | — | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #9,631 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yanis! It came in at #9,631, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yanis is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Georgia#1,367 · 1 in 10,078
- Texas#2,628 · 1 in 35,481
Best ever in a state: #562 in Massachusetts, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,367 | 5 | 1 in 10,078 |
| Texas | #2,628 | 5 | 1 in 35,481 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Yanis
- 121 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #2,539)
- 150 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #2,539)
- 1,145 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #2,539)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2021 at #2,109 (68 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,728 boys born in 2021 were named Yanis (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,848 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.6% of all boys named Yanis (341) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2005, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #9,631 (1998) | #9,631 |
| 2000s | 87 | #4,808 (2007) | #8,045 |
| 2010s | 241 | #2,897 (2019) | #4,658 |
| 2020s | 341 | #2,109 (2021) | #2,412 |
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.
Yanis in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 320,916 of them was named Yanis, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,421 names at #15,194; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 30,546 of them was named Yanis, which outranked 83.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,387Sameer57
- #2,387Whit57
- #2,387Williams57
- #2,416Yanis56
- #2,416Advaith56
- #2,416Arya56
- #2,416Binyamin56
- #2,441Aero55
- #2,441Antwan55
- #2,441Aviraj55
Tied with 24 names at #2,416; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.