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Jionni vs Jiovani

American parents have registered 1,488 Jionnis since 1880, against 690 Jiovanis. Jionni is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jionni against Jiovani, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jionni Jiovani

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 35 years in which either name was published, Jiovani for 20 years and Jionni for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jionni Jiovani
Total US births 1,488690
Most in one year 24937
Babies in 2025 3321
Estimated living today 1,500680
Median age today 1014
Peak year 20122009
Best rank 868th boys3,105th boys
Rank in 2025 3,450th4,707th
First recorded 20111988
Girls / boys 49 / 1,4390 / 690

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 Jiovanis alive today are over 14; half the Jionnis are over 10. That is 4 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: Jionni and Jiovani.