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Gianni vs Giavana

American parents have registered 18,916 Giannis since 1880, against 543 Giavanas. Gianni is still ahead, with 735 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gianni against Giavana, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gianni 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

Gianni has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Gianni had 510 and Giavana had 31.

Side by side

  Gianni Giavana
Total US births 18,916543
Most in one year 1,13931
Babies in 2025 73523
Estimated living today 19,000540
Median age today 1111
Peak year 20202016
Best rank 354th boys4,531st girls
Rank in 2025 523rd5,410th
First recorded 19621998
Girls / boys 3,429 / 15,487543 / 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.

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