Meaning not yet researched.
Gianna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5,634 in 2025. Its best rank was #13 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #13 in 2021; #33 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gianna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#33 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #13.
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Gianna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5,634 girls in 2025. Peak: #13 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 7,903 (2020).
In 2025, 5,634 US girls were named Gianna, making it the 33rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #23 in 2024. That is 497 fewer than the 6,131 girls named Gianna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #13, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7,903, in 2020. For comparison, it was #96 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gianna in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 5 babies. In all, 110,388 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 39,740 babies named Gianna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 53,010 US girls were named Gianna; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 7,903. In 2025 that was about 1 in 285 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gianna ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #12 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 42 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Giana (10,431 babies since 1880), Jianna (4,306 babies since 1880), Gina (153,461 babies since 1880) and Genna (3,032 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Giannah, Geanna and Geonna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Giannah (623), Geanna (615), Geonna (261), Gyanna (231), Gihanna (64), Giyanna (63), Giahnna (15), Gioanna (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Gianna in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 24 | #12 | #29 |
| California | 990 | #14 | #80 |
| Arizona | 189 | #15 | #61 |
| Nevada | 60 | #17 | #56 |
| New Mexico | 36 | #18 | #95 |
| Texas | 756 | #18 | #123 |
| Connecticut | 79 | #19 | #24 |
| Illinois | 216 | #19 | #62 |
| New Jersey | 190 | #21 | #16 |
| Florida | 433 | #21 | #45 |
| New York | 318 | #31 | #42 |
| Kansas | 54 | #36 | #211 |
| North Carolina | 185 | #37 | #189 |
| Louisiana | 66 | #38 | #230 |
| Michigan | 140 | #38 | #112 |
| Rhode Island | 17 | #39 | #33 |
| Maryland | 81 | #39 | #134 |
| Massachusetts | 112 | #40 | #31 |
| Colorado | 94 | #42 | #108 |
| Georgia | 154 | #42 | #265 |
| Ohio | 168 | #44 | #103 |
| West Virginia | 25 | #45 | #116 |
| South Carolina | 71 | #47 | #203 |
| Indiana | 100 | #47 | #192 |
| Minnesota | 74 | #54 | #154 |
| South Dakota | 15 | #54 | #100 |
| Pennsylvania | 152 | #55 | #40 |
| Virginia | 102 | #56 | #173 |
| Wisconsin | 68 | #57 | #216 |
| Nebraska | 28 | #58 | #115 |
| Oklahoma | 49 | #60 | #364 |
| Washington | 89 | #61 | #201 |
| Arkansas | 39 | #62 | #462 |
| Oregon | 44 | #64 | #488 |
| North Dakota | 13 | #64 | #102 |
| Idaho | 26 | #72 | — |
| Missouri | 71 | #72 | #178 |
| Iowa | 35 | #83 | #175 |
| New Hampshire | 14 | #84 | #155 |
| Tennessee | 77 | #95 | #407 |
| District of Columbia | 8 | #98 | — |
| Hawaii | 8 | #99 | #201 |
| Alabama | 43 | #102 | #510 |
| Kentucky | 39 | #109 | #438 |
| Montana | 9 | #112 | — |
| Mississippi | 20 | #117 | — |
| Maine | 9 | #122 | #146 |
| Utah | 35 | #126 | #581 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,634 | #33 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6,131 | #23 | 7 | #10,237 |
| 2023 | 6,146 | #21 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6,419 | #22 | 8 | #9,280 |
| 2021 | 7,477 | #13 | 8 | #9,117 |
| 2020 | 7,903 | #13 | 7 | #9,909 |
| 2019 | 3,424 | #79 | 5 | #12,798 |
| 2018 | 3,451 | #80 | 5 | #12,815 |
| 2017 | 3,199 | #91 | 5 | #12,919 |
| 2016 | 3,226 | #92 | — | — |
| 2015 | 3,183 | #96 | — | — |
| 2014 | 3,082 | #95 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,442 | #87 | — | — |
| 2012 | 3,627 | #73 | — | — |
| 2011 | 4,071 | #63 | 6 | #11,309 |
| 2010 | 3,960 | #67 | — | — |
| 2009 | 3,939 | #76 | — | — |
| 2008 | 3,669 | #88 | — | — |
| 2007 | 3,713 | #91 | 6 | #11,408 |
| 2006 | 3,454 | #98 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,962 | #110 | 6 | #10,549 |
| 2004 | 2,727 | #124 | 5 | #11,967 |
| 2003 | 2,311 | #143 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,985 | #163 | 5 | #11,286 |
| 2001 | 1,765 | #185 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,333 | #240 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,307 | #241 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,177 | #264 | — | — |
| 1997 | 771 | #357 | — | — |
| 1996 | 656 | #402 | — | — |
| 1995 | 617 | #420 | — | — |
| 1994 | 491 | #503 | — | — |
| 1993 | 430 | #553 | — | — |
| 1992 | 365 | #620 | — | — |
| 1991 | 327 | #664 | — | — |
| 1990 | 227 | #865 | — | — |
| 1989 | 209 | #881 | — | — |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1986 | 89 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,651 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,517 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,173 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,703 | — | — |
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).