boy's name

Ioannis

  • Gender Boy
  • Letters 7
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 2,155

Scotland

#858

2022 births

Ioannis is a boy's name. In 2025 it was given to 29 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2018, when 40 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 114,325 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1964.

Ioannis over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1960s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

283
'60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Ioannis by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1960s 10
1970s 182
1980s 259
1990s 229
2000s 265
2010s 283
2020s (to 2025) 172

How popular is Ioannis?

In 2025, Ioannis was given to 29 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Ioannis is used

Scotland #858 3 in 2022
England & Wales #1,693 16 in 2025
Canada #2,292 9 in 2024
United States #3,835 29 in 2025
France #6,473 5 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Ioannis

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Ioannis also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Ioannis over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Ioannis in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Amis
Iwan
Arabic
Jehan
Atayal
Iwan
Catalan
Joan
Finnish
Hannes
Hungarian
Janka
Icelandic
Hannes
Italian
Ivano
Norwegian
Johannes
Occitan
Joan
Romanian
Ion
Seediq
Iwan
Slovene
Janka
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Yvan Yannis Erwann Joao Yanni Giovan Yiannis Joanis

Sibling names for Ioannis

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Ioannis — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Ioannis

How popular is the name Ioannis?

In 2025, Ioannis was given to 29 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Ioannis a girl's or a boy's name?

Ioannis is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.

When was Ioannis most popular?

Ioannis peaked in 2018, when 40 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Ioannis a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Ioannis currently ranks #1,693 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.