Given name & surname
Yanai
“God will answer”
Yanai is used as a given name and a surname. One Aramaic interpretation is “God will answer.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Aramaic interpretation is “God will answer.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Aramaic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yanai through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 160
- 52 boys · 108 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #8,225 for boys · #10,886 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,225 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. It also appeared in 9 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 233 as a first name in 2020; 196 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yanai’s family of names
Yanai has a related form in Yana. Yanai has a related form in Yani. Yanai has a related form in Yanae.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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