Yanni \ya(n)-ni\ as a boy's name is a variant of John (Hebrew) and Yannis (Greek, Hebrew), and the meaning of Yanni is "God is gracious".

The baby name Yanni sounds like Yanno, Yanai and Yann. Other similar baby names are Yannic, Manny, Dann, Danny, Dannie, Dani, Danno, Gianni, Hani, Mannie, Eann, Janna, Jannai, Jianni, Janne, Hanno, Lanny, Lannie, Mann, Tannie, Vann, Yancy, Yance, Yannick, Yovanni and Zann.