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Giancarlo vs Giannina

American parents have registered 8,652 Giancarlos since 1880, against 531 Gianninas. Giancarlo is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giancarlo against Giannina, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giancarlo Giannina

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

Giancarlo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1965, when Giancarlo had 7 and Giannina had 6.

Side by side

  Giancarlo Giannina
Total US births 8,652531
Most in one year 38145
Babies in 2025 12526
Estimated living today 8,500520
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20082022
Best rank 641st boys3,470th girls
Rank in 2025 1,436th4,987th
First recorded 19561965
Girls / boys 0 / 8,652531 / 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.

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 Giancarlo Giannina
France 17010

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: Giancarlo and Giannina.