girls:
25 births since 2019
#5691 (0th percentile)
boys:
825 births since 2014
#3762 (18th percentile)
overall:
850 births since 2014
#6889 (11th percentile)
The name Giannis is the #6,889 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 850 recorded births since 2014. This represents the 11.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,762 (17.9% percentile) for all time with 825 births since 2014. For girls, it ranks #5,691 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 2019.
Giannis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2014 (2014 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Giannis is available in 9 out of the 10 years between 2014 and 2023 (9 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Giannis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Giannis reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 17.0% percentile (ranked #767) with 86 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 86 births per million (ranked 17.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Giannis ranks #778 for boys (14.6% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 87.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Giannis reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #938) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Giannis is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #945 (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Giannis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Giannis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.5% confident that Giannis is pronounced as YAH-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEE-uh-nees, at 30.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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