Yanis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Forme française de Yanis/Ioannis, du grec Ioánnēs < hébreu Yôḥānān « Dieu fait grâce »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jaɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yanis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.6K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 8.3K
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
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, 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)
Forme française de Yanis/Ioannis, du grec Ioánnēs < hébreu Yôḥānān « Dieu fait grâce ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yanis 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 | #225 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 66K | Yanis | 291 |
| DZ Algeria | #326 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Yanis | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,516 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Yanis | 30 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Yanis | 55 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Yanis | 23 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Yanis | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 40 | Yanis | 41 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung. 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)
Yanis 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 French, Variante grecque de Jean, issu de l’hébreu.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Yanis Koussimb. 1977DZAlgerian film director
- Karim Zianib. 1982FRnot in their usual nameAlgerian and French footballer
- Janis Sahraouib. 1988FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
- Yanis Merdjib. 1993FRAlgerian and French footballer
- Yanis Rahmanib. 1995FRFrench association football player
- Yanis Karabelyovb. 1996BGBulgarian association football player (born 1996)
- Yanis Davidb. 1997FRFrench triple jumper from Guadaloupe
- Yanis Hamacheb. 1999FRFrench association football player
- Yanis Begraouib. 2001FRMoroccan and French footballer
- Yanis Pîrvub. 2007RORomanian football player
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)
Attested in 78 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 66K | #81 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #2,141 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 759 | #1,554 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 56 | #11,289 |
| CH Switzerland | FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung | 2024 | 40 | #197 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Yanis a male or female name?
- Yanis 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.
- How do you pronounce Yanis?
- A machine transcription gives /jaɲi/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Yanis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forme française de Yanis/Ioannis, du grec Ioánnēs < hébreu Yôḥānān « Dieu fait grâce ».
- What are other forms of the name Yanis?
- In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yanis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Yanis in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yanis.
- How common is the name Yanis?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,516 people named Yanis, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Yanis compared with other names?
- In France, Yanis is the 225th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yanisThe 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, “Yanis” — the 225th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.