Yanis

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Yanis: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Yanis: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #516, and it stood at #577 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#516highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2863
1997	#2022
2000	#2501
2001	#1286
2002	#2636
2003	#3467
2004	#1410
2005	#1991
2006	#1892
2007	#1201
2008	#1403
2009	#1568
2010	#1144
2011	#1398
2012	#1313
2013	#1001
2014	#959
2015	#821
2016	#691
2017	#779
2018	#690
2019	#723
2020	#640
2021	#1004
2022	#699
2023	#625
2024	#1108

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1108 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2012–2025
Highest recorded position: #516 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2012–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Yanis appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 666 births with the name.

Yanis across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Yanis's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#625 (2023)	#1108 (2024)	27 of 29	666 (1996–2024)	57 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#718 (2012)	#516 (2023)	#577 (2025)	7 of 14	26 (2012–2025)	6 (2023)

Yanis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Yanis in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	100	10 of 10	10
2010s	344	10 of 10	34
2020sbusiest	214	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 43 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births fell by 31, from 57 to 26.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Yanis appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #516 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Yanis's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#625	57	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#699	48	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1004	29	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#640	54	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#723	46	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#690	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#779	43	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#691	50	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#959	30	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1001	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1398	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1144	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1568	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1201	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1410	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1286	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #516, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 57 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Yann · #616, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Janna · #516, 28y
Maryanne · #516, 30y
Rianne · #516, 26y
Alesia · #515, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amee · #516, 14y
Katey · #516, 20y
Leonna · #516, 13y
Maryanne · #516, 30y

Yanis was ranked #516 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Yanis and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Yanis without appearing here.

Yanis moved ahead of

Jade Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3467 and #2470 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1410 and #3651.
Malin Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3467 and #2189 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1410 and #3651.
Henrik Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1568 and #1494 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1144 and #3332.
Willow Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2863 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1991 and #3849.

Moved the opposite way to Yanis

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yanis went from #2863 to #1108 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yanis went from #2863 to #1108 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yanis went from #2863 to #1108 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yanis went from #2863 to #1108 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Yanis

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yanis went from #2863 to #1108 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yanis went from #2863 to #1108 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yanis went from #2863 to #1108 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yanis went from #2863 to #1108 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #516 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Yanis

Yanis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Yanis across 2 official records

Yanis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Yanis appears in

Popularity data

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Yanis at a glance

Yanis across 2 official records

Yanis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Yanis

Yanis and the names beside it

Yanis moved ahead of

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