Yann
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Congo - Kinshasa it is the 68th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Breton.
- FRFrance≈1 in 844(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.2K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 419 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 551 (inferred from the name graph)
≈80,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
a male given name from Breton
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yann 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 | #160 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 844 | 87K | Yann | 419 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #810 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 551 | — | Yann | 30 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #68 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Yann | 24 |
| CM Cameroon | #227 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Yann | 35 |
| CH Switzerland | #336 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Yann | 114 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,990 | 1 in 71K | 3K | Yann | 89 |
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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Yann is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme bretonne de Jean, du grec Ioánnēs < hébreu Yôḥānān « Dieu fait grâce ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Forme bretonne de Jean; du nom hébreu signifiant « Dieu a fait grâce ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Breton form of Jean; «Dieu est miséricordieux».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, [ja]: in den i98oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., bre- tonische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Breton form of JOHN . Pet form: Yannic(k) .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yann Arthus-Bertrandb. 1946FRFrench photographer (born 1946)
- Yann Le Cunb. 1960FRFrench computer scientist (born 1960)
- Yann Martelb. 1963CACanadian writer
- Yann Samuellb. 1965FRFrench film director
- Yann Tiersenb. 1970FRFrench composer (born 1970)
- Yann Demangeb. 1977FRFrench film director
- Yann Gozlanb. 1977FRFrench film director (born 1977)
- Yann Sommerb. 1988CHSwiss association football player
- Giovanni Siob. 1989FRnot in their usual nameIvorian and French association football player
- Yann M'Vilab. 1990FRFrench association football player (born 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 87K | #463 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,913 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.5K | #7,268 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 352 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #3,913 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Yann mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Breton Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Yann a male or female name?
- Yann 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.
- What are other forms of the name Yann?
- In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages; Yannick, Yanick and Yannic are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Yann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 80 thousand people named Yann in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yann.
- How common is the name Yann?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,990 people named Yann in 2022, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Yann compared with other names?
- In France, Yann is the 160th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yannThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Yann” — the 160th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.