Boy

Gian

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#956
244 boys
2015
#1,220
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Gian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 244 in 2025. Its best rank was #777 in 2023.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #777 in 2023; #956 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gian in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#956 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #777.

Babies in 2025
244
Since 1880
5,033
Years on record
68

Babies named Gian, every year since 1880

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Boys

Gian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 244 boys in 2025. Peak: #777 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 328 (2023).

About the name Gian

In 2025, 244 US boys were named Gian, making it the 956th most common boys’ name of the year, down 59 places from #897 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 264 boys named Gian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #777, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 328. For comparison, it was #1,220 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Gian in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 5,033 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,478 babies named Gian.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,026 US boys were named Gian; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 328. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,000 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Gian ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #365 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include John (5,204,377 babies since 1880), Jack (759,677 babies since 1880), Joan (488,939 babies since 1880) and Jean (483,475 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gyan, Giann and Gianne are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Gyan (212), Giann (186), Gianne (81), Gion (49), Giahan (12), Giaan (12).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Gian in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Gian by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Connecticut8#365—
Florida33#535#612
New Jersey12#585#740
New York22#670#870
Texas44#672#908
Colorado7#707—
Arizona8#745—
Virginia9#760—
California29#834#1,027
Georgia9#941—
Pennsylvania5#1,305#1,084
North Carolina5#1,340—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——244#956
2024——264#897
2023——328#777
2022——250#924
2021——234#958
2020——158#1,202
2019——129#1,384
2018——151#1,230
2017——127#1,388
2016——141#1,290
2015——151#1,220
2014——122#1,391
2013——107#1,515
2012——114#1,450
2011——121#1,378
2010——121#1,385
2009——133#1,311
2008——151#1,181
2007——132#1,307
2006——146#1,157
2005——124#1,262
2004——142#1,115
2003——120#1,220
2002——126#1,133
2001——77#1,567
2000——75#1,576
1999——52#1,888
1998——53#1,857
1997——53#1,799
1996——47#1,917
1995——49#1,788
1994——57#1,619
1993——54#1,644
1992——35#2,190
1991——52#1,620
1990——42#1,852
1989——41#1,839
1988——38#1,798
1987——37#1,768
1986——33#1,857
1985——18#2,754
1984——23#2,257
1983——14#3,130
1982——26#2,078
1981——25#2,107
1980——26#2,078
1979——21#2,333
1978——20#2,312
1977——16#2,703
1976——20#2,272
1975——15#2,682
1974——11#3,203
1973——13#2,768
1972——15#2,467
1971——14#2,609
1970——12#2,781
1969——11#2,753
1968——11#2,635
1967——15#2,069
1966——13#2,269
1965——15#2,118
1964——7#3,400
1963——9#2,925
1962——9#2,924
1960——7#3,464
1959——6#3,747
1957——5#4,200
1953——5#4,020

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).