Given name
Jannik
“God is gracious”
In German use, Jannik has a related form in Jan. In Slavic use, Jan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In German use, Jannik has a related form in Jan. In Slavic use, Jan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Jannik is a form of Jan. Jan comes from Low German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Danish usage, Jannik is a diminutive of Jan.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jannik through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,533 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,533 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jannik’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Jannik is a diminutive of Jan. In German usage, Jannik has a related form in Johannes. In German usage, Jannik has a related form in Jan.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jannik has relatives in 4 languages.
9 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jannik
- Jannik SinnerItalian tennis player (born 2001)
- Jannik VestergaardDanish association football playerborn 1992
- Jannik SchümannGerman actor (born 1992)
- Jannik HuthGerman association football playerborn 1994
- Jannik KohlbacherGerman handball playerborn 1995
- Jannik HansenDanish ice hockey playerborn 1986
- Jannik SteimleGerman cyclistborn 1996
- Jannik BandowskiGerman association football playerborn 1994
- Jannik HastrupDanish artistborn 1941
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.