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Giana vs Giancarlos

American parents have registered 10,431 Gianas since 1880, against 830 Giancarloses. Giana is still ahead, with 285 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giana against Giancarlos, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giana Giancarlos

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Giana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Giana had 166 and Giancarlos had 31.

Side by side

  Giana Giancarlos
Total US births 10,431830
Most in one year 51549
Babies in 2025 2855
Estimated living today 10,000820
Median age today 1517
Peak year 20102010
Best rank 568th girls2,511th boys
Rank in 2025 920th12,008th
First recorded 19631988
Girls / boys 10,431 / 00 / 830

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Giancarloses alive today are over 17; half the Gianas are over 15. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Giana and Giancarlos.