Is Yanis a boy or girl name?

Yanis is mostly a boy’s name. Of the 808 Americans recorded with the name since 1880, 16.6% were girls and 83.4% were boys.

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Yanis

Recorded 1998–2025 · United States

Yanis was most popular in 2021, when 81 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,037 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,471, with 52 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 808 people named Yanis.

Yanis over time

Births per year. The dot marks Yanis’s peak in 2021. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

Is Yanis a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Yanis is mostly a boy’s name — 16.6% of the 808 Americans given it were girls and 83.4% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 7% girls and 93% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org