Meaning not yet researched.
Gio: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 197 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,091 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 96% of babies named Gio in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,091 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Gio: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 197 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,091 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 197 (2025).
In 2025, 197 US boys were named Gio, making it the 1,091st most common boys’ name of the year, up 75 places from #1,166 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 179 boys named Gio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,091, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 197. For comparison, it was #2,655 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gio in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 6 babies. In all, 1,615 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 997 babies named Gio.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,233 US boys were named Gio; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 197. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,670 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gio ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #723 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gia (22,700 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Gio in the open dataset we use.
Gio is listed as a nickname for Giovanni.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #723 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #784 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #802 | — |
| California | 30 | #818 | #1,340 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #824 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #852 | — |
| New York | 16 | #858 | #1,702 |
| Colorado | 5 | #893 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #942 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #963 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,051 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,166 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,181 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,267 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,376 | 197 | #1,091 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,623 | 179 | #1,166 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,586 | 181 | #1,153 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,399 | 170 | #1,188 |
| 2021 | — | — | 136 | #1,360 |
| 2020 | — | — | 96 | #1,661 |
| 2019 | — | — | 93 | #1,703 |
| 2018 | — | — | 75 | #1,965 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,359 |
| 2016 | — | — | 51 | #2,487 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,655 |
| 2014 | — | — | 47 | #2,594 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,148 |
| 2012 | — | — | 42 | #2,838 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,193 |
| 2010 | — | — | 28 | #3,747 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,585 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,529 |
| 2007 | — | — | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,106 | 19 | #4,749 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,795 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,000 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,687 |
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).