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Gianni vs Giavanna

American parents have registered 18,916 Giannis since 1880, against 6,210 Giavannas. Gianni is still ahead, with 735 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gianni Giavanna

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 2001, when Gianni had 277 and Giavanna had 137.

Side by side

  Gianni Giavanna
Total US births 18,9166,210
Most in one year 1,139287
Babies in 2025 735231
Estimated living today 19,0006,200
Median age today 1112
Peak year 20202021
Best rank 354th boys926th girls
Rank in 2025 523rd1,060th
First recorded 19621976
Girls / boys 3,429 / 15,4876,210 / 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 Gianni Giavanna
England and Wales 44474

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: Gianni and Giavanna.