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Giana vs Giavana

American parents have registered 10,431 Gianas since 1880, against 543 Giavanas. Giana is still ahead, with 285 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Giana Giavana

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 2018, when Giana had 272 and Giavana had 30.

Side by side

  Giana Giavana
Total US births 10,431543
Most in one year 51531
Babies in 2025 28523
Estimated living today 10,000540
Median age today 1511
Peak year 20102016
Best rank 568th girls4,531st girls
Rank in 2025 920th5,410th
First recorded 19631998
Girls / boys 10,431 / 0543 / 0

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 Gianas alive today are over 15; half the Giavanas are over 11. That is 4 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 Giavana.