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Giancarlo vs Giavana

American parents have registered 8,652 Giancarlos since 1880, against 543 Giavanas. Giancarlo is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Giancarlo 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

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 2020, when Giancarlo had 156 and Giavana had 30.

Side by side

  Giancarlo Giavana
Total US births 8,652543
Most in one year 38131
Babies in 2025 12523
Estimated living today 8,500540
Median age today 1811
Peak year 20082016
Best rank 641st boys4,531st girls
Rank in 2025 1,436th5,410th
First recorded 19561998
Girls / boys 0 / 8,652543 / 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 Giancarlos alive today are over 18; half the Giavanas are over 11. That is 7 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: Giancarlo and Giavana.