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Jiovani vs Jiovanni

American parents have registered 2,630 Jiovannis since 1880, against 690 Jiovanis. Jiovanni is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jiovani against Jiovanni, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jiovani Jiovanni

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, Jiovanni for 41 years and Jiovani for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jiovani Jiovanni
Total US births 6902,630
Most in one year 37144
Babies in 2025 21108
Estimated living today 6802,600
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20092023
Best rank 3,105th boys1,323rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,707th1,571st
First recorded 19881984
Girls / boys 0 / 6900 / 2,630

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 Jiovannis are over 11. That is 3 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 Jiovani Jiovanni
France 525

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: Jiovani and Jiovanni.