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Giovannie vs Giovanny

American parents have registered 6,752 Giovannys since 1880, against 720 Giovannies. Giovanny is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Giovannie Giovanny

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

Giovanny has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Giovannie had 5 and Giovanny had 9.

Side by side

  Giovannie Giovanny
Total US births 7206,752
Most in one year 38399
Babies in 2025 1078
Estimated living today 7106,600
Median age today 1917
Peak year 20102010
Best rank 3,014th boys618th boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th1,959th
First recorded 19811973
Girls / boys 6 / 71430 / 6,722

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 Giovannies alive today are over 19; half the Giovannys are over 17. That is 2 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: Giovannie and Giovanny.