Yanni

[gofrotoes]

It is one of the transcriptions of the greek for John.

DH is only accepting it as it doesn't come across as too greek and is said as it is written.

Whta do you think?

I know a lovely Yanni, so I think it's a great name :) Pretty easy to spell and pronounce too.

Love it.

Yanni is goed, Yannick is better.

Are you Greek? If not, I personally wouldn't use it...strangely enough I do like Yannick though - you could then have Yanni or Nick as nns...

Yannick isn't greek - it's the french equivalent name, Yannis,Yanni,Yianni are all the greek (there are more as well)
montsti yes (well both my parents emigrated here)

DH doesn't really like long greek names (i do) so it either has to be a greek name that has entered english names (or an anglasisation of one) or a really simple greek name. If we can't agree on one then it is going to be the longest greek name I can find as a mn.

I like it!

I'd not heard it before but like it.

Ok I think it's a great choice then. Sometimes a little odd when there are no connections...

I know Yannick isn't Greek but meant that I was contradicting myself by saying go for another foreign name even without connections..

Never heard of it before, not keen... sorry!

I like it.

My first snog was with a Janni (pronounced the same way)! I like it!

I love Yanni. The Yanni i knew was beautiful, intelligent and kind.

Lovely name - I thought it was Yannis (or Ioannis?) pronounced Yanni?

Ioannis is the formal version and the one people use for birth certificates, baptisms, etc. Yannis is a shortened, nick-name version, less formal and the one most Ionnides use. Both Yannis and Yanni is correct, my grasp of syntax is horrific so I can't articulate the distinction, but you would say:
"Yannis went to the pub"
but
"Tell Yanni to go to the pub"

I know what you are saying Booboo but I have any cousins who are Yiannis and none of them are Ioannis. Also the famous Yanni (the composer) is actaully Yiannis with Yanni as a nn. All are counted as the form of John.

Oooh, I like it!

Soon there are loads of different transcriptions Yanni is the only one DH would accept. Said no to Yiannis, Yannis, Yannakis and Giannis and I have never liked look of Ioannis

gofrotoes people can call their kids anything they like and there is no reason why you can't go for Yiannis directly and ignore Ioannis, but Ioannis is the formal version (e.g. there is a Saint Ioannis but no Saint Yiannis). BTW total typo on my part I meant Yiannis not Yannis through-out my post!

Yiannakis is little Yiannis, like Christakis is little Christos, Nicolakis is little Nikolas

It probably all boils down to the fact that Greek is a much more complicated language grammatically than English so there are more possibilities and it's a language that allows and encourages the creation of new words so there are more possibilities. For example, my user name is Booboos ("too" because there was another Booboos on here) which is a play on the English Booboo Greekified with the 's'.

Even more confusingly enough Greek passport issuing authorities now use a computerised system to render Greek names into latin characters so my DD who is called Lily Charlotte, had her name transliterated as Lili Sarlot from the Greek characters. Took ages to sort out, and at one point she was almost called Lili Harlot officially, but that's Greece for you!

OK, I digress, sorry OP!