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Giancarlos vs Gianna

American parents have registered 110,388 Giannas since 1880, against 830 Giancarloses. Gianna is still ahead, with 5,634 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giancarlos against Gianna, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giancarlos Gianna

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

Gianna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1951 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Giancarlos had 5 and Gianna had 111.

Side by side

  Giancarlos Gianna
Total US births 830110,388
Most in one year 497,910
Babies in 2025 55,634
Estimated living today 820109,000
Median age today 1710
Peak year 20102020
Best rank 2,511th boys13th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th33rd
First recorded 19881951
Girls / boys 0 / 830110,315 / 73

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 Giannas are over 10. 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: Giancarlos and Gianna.