Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yanick isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yanick through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 102
- 57 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,068 as a first name in 2020; 358 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.
Yanick’s family of names
In German usage, Yanick has a related form in Johannes. In French usage, Yanick has a conventional equivalent in the German form Yannick.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yanick
- Yanick LahensHaitian radio host and writerborn 1953
- Yanick MoreiraAngolan basketball player (born 1991)
- Yanick BrecherSwiss association football playerborn 1993
- Yanick van OschDutch association football playerborn 1997
- Yanik FrickLiechtensteiner association football playerborn 1998
- Yanick LehouxCanadian ice hockey playerborn 1982
- Yanick DupréCanadian ice hockey player (1972–1997)
- Yanick Gunschborn 1997
- Yanick DubéGerman ice hockey playerborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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