boys:
1k births since 1981
#3559 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1981
#6703 (13th percentile)
The name Yannick is the #6,703 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,036 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 13.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,559 (22.3% percentile) for all time with 1,036 births since 1981.
Yannick first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (first recorded for boys in 1981).
For boys, Yannick reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #865) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yannick ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 40.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yannick".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yannick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.6% confident that Yannick is pronounced as YA-nihk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YAH-nihk, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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