Giovanni

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Giovanni boys named Giovanni

By the numbers

Total US births

90,351

Estimated living today

88,000

Median age today

14

Peak year

2010

Best rank

117th

Rank in 2025

123rd

First recorded

1907

Girls / boys

983 / 89,368

How old the living Giovannis are

born that year still alive today

Of the 90,351 babies given the name since 1907, about 88,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 54,000 of them are children and 140 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Borrowed from Italian Giovanni.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Giovannis

• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375)Italian author and poet
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594)Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)Italian Renaissance philosopher
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712)Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
• Giovanni Bellini (1430–1516)15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)Italian painter
• Giovanni Ribisi (born 1974)American actor
• Giovanni Leone (1908–2001)6th President of Italy

People named Giovanni with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Giovanni is most common

• CA20,202
• TX9,948
• NY8,278
• FL6,951
• IL5,439
• NJ3,731
• PA2,973
• AZ2,505
• OH2,076
• MI1,956

Relative to how many babies each state records, Giovanni is most concentrated in Nevada (4.3×), Arizona (2.3×), Florida (2.3×), California (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2010

The most popular boys’ names the year Giovanni peaked:

• Jacob
• Ethan
• Michael
• Jayden
• William
• Alexander

All the names of 2010

Giovanni elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Giovanni: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Giovanni is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.17% of children were given it – 109 of them.

Giovanni: rank by region

In 2024, Giovanni was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Giovanni was among the 10 most common names in 3 regions of Italy.

In 2024, Giovanni was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

In 2023, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Giovanni appears in the lists for Sud (10th).

In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Giovanni appears in the lists for Province of Liège (187th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Giovanni by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Giovanni among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Giovanni lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 3,617 men called Giovanni were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Giovanna
• Giovani
• Giovanny
• Giorgio
• Gionni
• Gio
• Giovany
• Giovonni
• Gionna
• Giovana
• Gioia
• Giovannie

Giovanni against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Giovanni vs Giovanna
• Giovanni vs Giovani
• Giovanni vs Giovanny
• Giovanni vs Giorgio
• Giovanni vs Gionni
• Giovanni vs Gio

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