Given name
Yannik
“God is gracious”
Yannik is a variant of Yan. In Hebrew use, Yan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yannik is a variant of Yan. In Hebrew use, Yan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yannik through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 8 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 8 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yannik’s family of names
Yannik has a related form in Yan. In German usage, Yannik has a related form in Yannick. In German usage, Yannik has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Janek.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 Yannik
- Yannik EngelhardtGerman association football playerborn 2001
- Yannik OettlGerman association football playerborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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