Yann
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yann is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In the Congo - Kinshasa it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Breton.
- FRFrance1 in 782◐
- CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 3.9K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈91K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 405 ●
- 1 in 782 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
278K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled ย่าน in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from Breton
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #207 | 86,775 | 258K rec. | 1 in 782 | 87K | Yann | 405 |
| TH Thailand | — | 3,117 | 1.1K rec. | — | #178,120 | ย่าน | 43 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,990△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 71K | 3K | Yann | 92 |
| CH Switzerland | #330 | 1,961 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Yann | 106 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,742 | 1.5K rec. | — | 1 | Yann | 134 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #416 | 1,464 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Yann | 29 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,263 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Yann | 83 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #51 | 980 | 1K rec. | — | — | Yann | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 877 | 511 rec. | — | listed | Yann | 96 |
| US United States | — | 807 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 412K | 807 | Yann | 225 |
| MQ Martinique | #192 | 799 | 167 rec. | — | 5 | Yann | 22 |
| AR Argentina | — | 495 | 297 rec. | — | 12 | Yann | 33 |
Roughly 87K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 782). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French598K89%
- Portuguese31K5%
- English15K2%
- Spanish3.2K1%
- German2.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 598,456 | 89% |
| Portuguese | 30,959 | 5% |
| English | 15,149 | 2% |
| Spanish | 3,156 | 1% |
| German | 2,629 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yann is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme bretonne de Jean, du grec Ioánnēs < hébreu Yôḥānān « Dieu fait grâce ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Forme bretonne de Jean; du nom hébreu signifiant « Dieu a fait grâce ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Breton form of Jean; «Dieu est miséricordieux».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, [ja]: in den i98oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., bre- tonische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Breton form of JOHN . Pet form: Yannic(k) .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 20 |
| 1979 | 25 |
| 1980 | 25 |
| 1981 | 25 |
| 1982 | 20 |
| 1983 | 30 |
| 1984 | 25 |
| 1985 | 30 |
| 1986 | 30 |
| 1987 | 30 |
| 1988 | 30 |
| 1989 | 25 |
| 1990 | 40 |
| 1991 | 45 |
| 1992 | 35 |
| 1993 | 40 |
| 1994 | 35 |
| 1995 | 40 |
| 1996 | 25 |
| 1997 | 35 |
| 1998 | 30 |
| 1999 | 40 |
| 2000 | 55 |
| 2001 | 40 |
| 2002 | 55 |
| 2003 | 40 |
| 2004 | 45 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 35 |
| 2007 | 25 |
| 2008 | 25 |
| 2009 | 20 |
| 2010 | 25 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 15 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 55 years between 1968–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yann Arthus-Bertrandb. 1946FRFrench photographer (born 1946)
- Yann Le Cunb. 1960FRFrench computer scientist (born 1960)
- Yann Martelb. 1963CACanadian writer
- Yann Samuellb. 1965FRFrench film director
- Yann Tiersenb. 1970FRFrench composer (born 1970)
- Yann Demangeb. 1977FRFrench film director
- Yann Gozlanb. 1977FRFrench film director (born 1977)
- Yann Sommerb. 1988CHSwiss association football player
- Giovanni Siob. 1989FRnot in their usual nameIvorian and French association football player
- Yann M'Vilab. 1990FRFrench association football player (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 69 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 87K | #463 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,913 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.5K | #7,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 807 | #13,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 545 | #42,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 454 | #46,811 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 430 | #46,614 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 352 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 293 | #6,739 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 288 | #3,129 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 251 | #2,521 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 523 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yann?
- We estimate roughly 91 thousand people bear Yann (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yann have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 87 thousand people bear Yann in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yann.
- Where is Yann most common?
- Yann is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 782 people carrying it.
- How common is Yann compared with other names?
- In France, Yann is the 207th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Yann a male or female name?
- Yann is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Yann mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Breton
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yann” — the 207th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.