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Giana vs Gianfranco

American parents have registered 10,431 Gianas since 1880, against 1,057 Gianfrancos. Giana is still ahead, with 285 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Giana Gianfranco

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

Of the 62 years in which either name was published, Giana for 60 years and Gianfranco for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Giana Gianfranco
Total US births 10,4311,057
Most in one year 51539
Babies in 2025 2857
Estimated living today 10,0001,000
Median age today 1523
Peak year 20102002
Best rank 568th girls2,504th boys
Rank in 2025 920th9,714th
First recorded 19631965
Girls / boys 10,431 / 00 / 1,057

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 Gianfrancos alive today are over 23; half the Gianas are over 15. That is 8 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Giana Gianfranco
France 5570
England and Wales 10021

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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