Yannick

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yannick is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name69K records spelled Yannick19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Netherlands, Germany, United States, Canada

  Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

  Also written Yännïčk, Yànnick, Ÿãnnîck, Yãnnįck, Yanníck

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Yannick 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.

• Cameroon/Francophone African: name of Yannick Noah, a professional tennis player and singer.

  as a name·African Names

• In French, a male given name from Breton

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, Diminutif breton de Yann/Jean, du grec Ioánnēs < hébreu Yôḥānān « Dieu fait grâce ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, Dérivé breton de Yann, forme de Jean (hébreu).

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In German, in den i97oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., französische Schreibweise von bretonisch Yannig, einer Koseform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 49 years between 1957–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Yannick Noahb. 1960FRFrench tennis player and pop singer
• Yannick Bissonb. 1969CACanadian film and television actor
• Yannick Renierb. 1975BEBelgian actor
• Yannick Nézet-Séguinb. 1975CAQuébécois conductor and pianist
• Yannick Bolib. 1988FRIvorian and French footballer
• Yannick Bolasieb. 1989CDkonžský fotbalista (DRC)
• Yannick Agnelb. 1992FRFrench swimmer
• Yannick Carrascob. 1993BEBelgian association football player (born 1993)
• Yannick Gerhardtb. 1994DEGerman footballer
• Franck Kessiéb. 1996CInot in their usual nameIvorian association football player (born 1996)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 656 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yannick?

We estimate roughly 89 thousand people bear Yannick (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Yannick have the most bearers?

We estimate about 87 thousand people bear Yannick in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yannick.

How common is Yannick compared with other names?

In France, Yannick is the 210th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.

Is Yannick a male or female name?

Yannick 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 Yannick mean?

Recorded meaning: French form of Yann, from Hebrew meaning he answers