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Giovanny vs Giovany

American parents have registered 6,752 Giovannys since 1880, against 1,611 Giovanys. Giovanny is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Giovanny 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

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 Giovanny had 9 and Giovany had 7.

Side by side

  Giovanny Giovany
Total US births 6,7521,611
Most in one year 399127
Babies in 2025 7817
Estimated living today 6,6001,600
Median age today 1718
Peak year 20102010
Best rank 618th boys1,341st boys
Rank in 2025 1,959th5,399th
First recorded 19731981
Girls / boys 30 / 6,7220 / 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.

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 Giovanny Giovany
France 1,190575

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: Giovanny and Giovany.