Yánnis

given name · Latin script

/iɑnɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Yánnis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greece it is the most common given name.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GRGreece1 in 33as Ιωάννης
  • LVLatvia1 in 43as Jānis

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yánnis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,125,123 named John, 2020

#265 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
580 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JaniceLatin(measured from records)
ΙωαννηςGreek(measured from records)
ЯнисCyrillic(measured from records)
ג'ניסHebrew(measured from records)
জেনিসBengali(measured from records)
재니스Hangul(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Janice in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, Ioannis in SE Sweden, CY Cyprus, Yannis in FR France and John in GR Greece.

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.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yánnis 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.

Where Yánnis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#1243,125,123as John1 in 1063.1MJanice580
GR Greece#1320,751as Ιωάννης1 in 33650KJohn246
BR Brazil—171,850as Jean1 in 1.2K172KGiannis12
PH Philippines#148≈130,000 est.≈1 in 825—Janice160
GB United Kingdom#139≈85,000 est.≈1 in 77326Janice262
SE Sweden—69,521as John1 in 14770KIoannis49
LV Latvia#143,623as Jānis1 in 4344KJānis63
CY Cyprus#1613,458as Ιωαννης1 in 9413KIoannis97
FR France#615≈12,000 est.≈1 in 5.8K1.9MYannis300

3,125,123 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling john. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yánnis is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Spain, United States, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yannis, Yannïs, Yannís, Yanñis, Ÿåñńįs

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yannis

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Yannis Ritsos, b. 1909Yannis Smaragdis, b. 1946Giannis Parios, b. 1946Yiannis Kouros, b. 1956Yannis Sfairopoulos, b. 1967Yannis Goumas, b. 1975Ioannis Okkas, b. 1977Ioannis Amanatidis, b. 1981Giannis Maniatis, b. 1986Ioannis Fetfatzidis, b. 1990

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)

InformalHi Yánnis,

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)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Yánnis?
A machine transcription gives /iɑnɪs/ (IPA) for English.
Is Yánnis a male or female name?
Yánnis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Yánnis have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 million people named John, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Yánnis?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,125,123 people named John in 2020, about 1 in 106 residents.
How common is Yánnis compared with other names?
In the United States, Yánnis is the 124th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Yánnis” — the 124th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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