Iannis
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2008
/ʝanis/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from ιαννης · uncertain
Iannis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Iannis is also written Ιαννης in Greek.
- MDMoldova1 in 66K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 370Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Iannis in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Iannes in CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Iannis
- Greek:/ʝanis/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iannis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 373K | 115 | Iannis | 114 |
| GR Greece | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 1 | Iannis | 21 |
| RO Romania | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Iannis | 3 |
| MD Moldova | 51 | 1 in 66K | 51 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Iannis | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 693K | — | Iannes | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yannis Mitarakisb. 1897GRnot in their usual nameGreek painter
- Iannis Xenakisb. 1922FRGreek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
- Giannis Poulopoulosb. 1941GRnot in their usual nameGreek singer (1941–2020)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Iannis?
- In Greek /ʝanis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Iannis a male or female name?
- Iannis is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2008).
- Which countries have the most people named Iannis?
- Mondonomo estimates about 184 people named Iannis in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iannis. After it come Greece, Romania, Moldova and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Iannis?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 51 people named Iannis, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iannisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Iannis” — ranked 2291st in France (INSEE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.