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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202008peak #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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Yeargirlsboys
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.

Where Yanni is popular in 2008

No state had 5 or more boys named Yanni in 2008, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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?
Never flipped
  • 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 2008

girls
#13,832
7 births · 1 in 270,134 girls
boys
#3,286
34 births · 1 in 60,004 boys

Top girls' names in 2008

  1. #1Emma18,830
  2. #2Isabella18,629
  3. #3Emily17,448
  4. #4Olivia17,088
  5. #5Ava17,051
  6. #6Madison17,047
  7. #7Sophia16,091
  8. #8Abigail15,088
  9. #9Elizabeth12,027
  10. #10Chloe11,836
  11. #13,832Yanni7

Top boys' names in 2008

  1. #1Jacob22,621
  2. #2Michael20,652
  3. #3Ethan20,223
  4. #4Joshua19,231
  5. #5Daniel19,032
  6. #6Alexander18,711
  7. #7Anthony18,417
  8. #8William18,403
  9. #9Christopher17,966
  10. #10Matthew17,604
  11. #3,286Yanni34
More about 2008

girls

1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 270,134 of them was named Yanni, which outranked 32.5% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yanni
  1. #12,579Zykeira8
  2. #12,579Zymia8
  3. #12,579Zyrihanna8
  4. #13,832Yanni7
  5. #13,832Aahna7
  6. #13,832Aala7
  7. #13,832Aaleah7
  8. #15,405Aahliyah6
  9. #15,405Aalaiyah6
  10. #15,405Aamiya6

Tied with 1,572 names at #13,832; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
  1. ↑ 9,375Dayami#10,129 → #754
  2. ↑ 4,524Allisson#4,944 → #420
  3. ↑ 1,019Alisson#1,804 → #785
  4. ↑ 851Milagros#1,579 → #728
  5. ↑ 807Mareli#1,530 → #723
Fallers
  1. ↓ 391Kelis#968 → #1,359
  2. ↓ 390Joselin#755 → #1,145
  3. ↓ 378Tyra#947 → #1,325
  4. ↓ 363Montana#932 → #1,295
  5. ↓ 337Allyssa#988 → #1,325

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

boys

2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 60,004 of them was named Yanni, which outranked 77.5% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yanni
  1. #3,221Yaniel35
  2. #3,221Yerik35
  3. #3,221Zeb35
  4. #3,286Yanni34
  5. #3,286Adien34
  6. #3,286Adrean34
  7. #3,286Alfonzo34
  8. #3,344Adem33
  9. #3,344Advaith33
  10. #3,344Ahron33

Tied with 57 names at #3,286; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,801Urijah#3,687 → #886
  2. ↑ 1,035Jadiel#1,912 → #877
  3. ↑ 790Aaden#1,132 → #342
  4. ↑ 676Chace#1,337 → #661
  5. ↑ 500Marley#1,263 → #763
Fallers
  1. ↓ 688Kelan#977 → #1,665
  2. ↓ 286Talen#990 → #1,276
  3. ↓ 281Nery#901 → #1,182
  4. ↓ 250Kellan#883 → #1,133
  5. ↓ 250Efren#977 → #1,227

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

See the top 100 for 2008 →