Yannick
Just 74 men in Poland carry it, and not one has been recorded since 2000: most Poles will never meet a Yannick. The French form of a Greek name meaning "god is gracious".
Yannick Pronunciation
What Yannick means
Where Yannick comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yannick begins in Brittany, on the western edge of France. It grew from Yann, the Breton name for John, and behind John stands the Greek Ioannes. That form reached Greek from the Hebrew Yohanan, meaning god is gracious.
The name spread across France in the twentieth century. Yannick Noah, born in 1960, won the French Open in 1983, and he stays the bearer most French people picture first. The old meaning traveled with the name into its French shape: god is gracious, a short sentence folded into three syllables.
The name reads French now. In a Polish class register, Yannick would sit near the Janeks and Jasieks, cousins from the same root through John. Say it once, and you have said god is gracious.
How many people are named Yannick
1 in 288462 men in Poland is named Yannick. 74 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4185 among male names.
Yannick as a middle name
Yannick is a first name for 74 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2364th, between Wladimir (16) and Yaseen (16).
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#2362 Witek16
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#2363 Wladimir16
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#2364 Yannick16
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#2365 Yaseen16
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#2366 Yasir16