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Gionni vs Giovany

American parents have registered 2,049 Gionnis since 1880, against 1,611 Giovanys. Gionni is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gionni against Giovany, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gionni Giovany

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

Of the 42 years in which either name was published, Giovany for 28 years and Gionni for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Gionni Giovany
Total US births 2,0491,611
Most in one year 191127
Babies in 2025 5717
Estimated living today 2,0001,600
Median age today 918
Peak year 20122010
Best rank 1,040th boys1,341st boys
Rank in 2025 2,641st5,399th
First recorded 19911981
Girls / boys 141 / 1,9080 / 1,611

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 Giovanys alive today are over 18; half the Gionnis are over 9. That is 9 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: Gionni and Giovany.