Baby name
RISING
🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 Yanis
/YAH · nis/
Meaning
“God is gracious”
Greek and French variant of Ioannis or Yann, from Hebrew Yohanan meaning 'God is gracious'; carried by Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis.
Nicknames
yani
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Clean and contemporary; ages well across Southern European and French contexts.
The cultural moment.
Rising in France and Belgium since the early 2000s; in the top 50 in France around 2010.