Yannig
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yannig is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Yann + -ig.
- FRFrance≈1 in 190K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1M
- CACanada≈1 in 8.5M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 190K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Yann + -ig.
Sources 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yannig 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 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 190K | 305 | Yannig | 147 |
| BE Belgium | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Yannig | 9 |
| US United States | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 55M | — | Yannig | 13 |
| CA Canada | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | — | Yannig | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Yannig | 5 |
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). 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)
Yannig is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Breton, a diminutive of the male given name Yann, equivalent to English Johnny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Yannig Baronb. 1936FRFrench musician
- Yannig Hedelb. 1948FRFrench photographer
- Yannig Robinb. 1966FRFrench politician
- Yanig Samotb. 1969FRnot in their usual nameactor
- Yannig PonchelFRFrench entomologist active in French Guiana
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1983 | 305 | #1,421 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Yannig mean, and where does it come from?
- From Yann + -ig. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Yannig?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Jack and Janice are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Yannig a male or female name?
- Yannig 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 Yannig have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 357 people named Yannig in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yannig.
- How common is the name Yannig?
- Mondonomo estimates about 360 people in France have Yannig as their first given name, about 1 in 190 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yannigThe 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, “Yannig”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.