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Jiana vs Jianni

American parents have registered 1,340 Jianas since 1880, against 676 Jiannis. But in 2025 it was Jianni that was commoner, 55 babies to 53.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jiana against Jianni, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jiana Jianni

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 41 years in which either name was published, Jiana for 40 years and Jianni for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jiana Jianni
Total US births 1,340676
Most in one year 8262
Babies in 2025 5355
Estimated living today 1,300670
Median age today 125
Peak year 20212022
Best rank 2,251st girls3,464th boys
Rank in 2025 3,067th3,848th
First recorded 19781992
Girls / boys 1,340 / 0320 / 356

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 Jianas alive today are over 12; half the Jiannis are over 5. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jiana Jianni
France 1015

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: Jiana and Jianni.