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Giovanni: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,939 in 2025. Its best rank was #117 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #117 in 2011; #123 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Giovanni in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#123 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #117.
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Giovanni: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,939 boys in 2025. Peak: #117 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 3,434 (2010).
In 2025, 2,939 US boys were named Giovanni, making it the 123rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1 place from #122 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 2,964 boys named Giovanni in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #117, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,434, in 2010. For comparison, it was #130 in 2015 and #2,651 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Giovanni in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 10 babies. In all, 90,351 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 30,545 babies named Giovanni.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29,068 US boys were named Giovanni; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 3,058. In 2025 that was about 1 in 581 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Giovanni ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #47 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 9 states (counting DC). 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 Giovannie, Giavanni and Giavonni are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Gio.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Giovannie (720), Giavanni (445), Giavonni (388), Geovonni (231), Geovannie (152), Givanni (131), Giovonnie (112), Giovoni (97), Giovanie (83), Givonni (28), Giovannii (19), Giovanii (11), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 132 | #47 | #94 |
| New Mexico | 30 | #51 | #104 |
| Nevada | 49 | #52 | #69 |
| Delaware | 16 | #59 | #86 |
| New Jersey | 119 | #75 | #80 |
| Rhode Island | 14 | #75 | #88 |
| California | 452 | #82 | #81 |
| New York | 200 | #89 | #89 |
| Michigan | 98 | #96 | #142 |
| Pennsylvania | 122 | #103 | #153 |
| Connecticut | 36 | #103 | #117 |
| Texas | 385 | #106 | #119 |
| Florida | 205 | #110 | #97 |
| Nebraska | 23 | #115 | #236 |
| Illinois | 103 | #117 | #96 |
| Massachusetts | 59 | #120 | #134 |
| Colorado | 58 | #121 | #107 |
| Ohio | 108 | #124 | #147 |
| Kansas | 31 | #128 | #133 |
| Maryland | 38 | #154 | #152 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #154 | #250 |
| Hawaii | 7 | #158 | #245 |
| Wisconsin | 40 | #160 | #139 |
| Indiana | 49 | #174 | #179 |
| North Carolina | 69 | #181 | #189 |
| Oklahoma | 27 | #181 | #226 |
| Washington | 48 | #184 | #205 |
| Missouri | 39 | #187 | #258 |
| Virginia | 46 | #195 | #194 |
| Georgia | 62 | #197 | #191 |
| Idaho | 13 | #208 | #323 |
| Oregon | 20 | #211 | #144 |
| Louisiana | 24 | #216 | #393 |
| Maine | 6 | #218 | #256 |
| Minnesota | 26 | #239 | #328 |
| Iowa | 16 | #252 | #241 |
| Tennessee | 33 | #270 | #319 |
| Kentucky | 20 | #271 | #261 |
| Arkansas | 13 | #277 | #320 |
| Alabama | 17 | #321 | #255 |
| Utah | 14 | #335 | #271 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #439 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,937 | 2,939 | #123 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,368 | 2,964 | #122 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,030 | 2,922 | #123 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,212 | 2,987 | #122 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,393 | 3,009 | #124 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,124 | 3,058 | #120 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,773 | 2,675 | #142 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,387 | 2,772 | #143 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,590 | 2,803 | #142 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,355 | 2,939 | #141 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,148 | 3,140 | #130 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,757 | 3,246 | #125 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,901 | 2,992 | #128 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,812 | 3,093 | #120 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,226 | 3,324 | #117 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,011 | 3,434 | #117 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,071 | 3,072 | #133 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,418 | 2,906 | #140 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,141 | 3,115 | #134 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,961 | 2,830 | #147 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,000 | 2,600 | #158 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,540 | 2,032 | #189 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,990 | 2,201 | #177 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,530 | 1,841 | #202 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,812 | 1,873 | #196 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,850 | 1,757 | #201 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,774 | 1,531 | #221 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,866 | 1,418 | #225 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,845 | 1,281 | #239 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,228 | 1,245 | #238 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,308 | 1,115 | #253 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,159 | 952 | #286 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,736 | 963 | #288 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,356 | 892 | #300 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,246 | 779 | #323 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,832 | 755 | #328 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,600 | 624 | #363 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,063 | 496 | #402 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,453 | 377 | #458 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,799 | 341 | #469 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,517 | 305 | #497 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,384 | 278 | #508 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,743 | 245 | #536 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,580 | 247 | #547 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,482 | 241 | #541 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,643 | 205 | #612 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,331 | 187 | #626 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,682 | 158 | #667 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,517 | 143 | #711 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,980 | 163 | #646 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,419 | 154 | #666 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,125 | 150 | #660 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,657 | 143 | #669 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,629 | 127 | #714 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,751 | 94 | #840 |
| 1970 | — | — | 99 | #813 |
| 1969 | — | — | 97 | #787 |
| 1968 | — | — | 79 | #827 |
| 1967 | — | — | 61 | #927 |
| 1966 | — | — | 64 | #905 |
| 1965 | — | — | 61 | #945 |
| 1964 | — | — | 50 | #1,074 |
| 1963 | — | — | 67 | #915 |
| 1962 | — | — | 39 | #1,248 |
| 1961 | — | — | 36 | #1,334 |
| 1960 | — | — | 25 | #1,637 |
| 1959 | — | — | 27 | #1,535 |
| 1958 | — | — | 28 | #1,494 |
| 1957 | — | — | 25 | #1,597 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #1,966 |
| 1955 | — | — | 16 | #1,995 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,821 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,569 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,757 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,175 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,651 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,900 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,876 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,943 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,709 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,295 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,795 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,109 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,828 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,718 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,214 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,507 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,203 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,201 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,593 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,998 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,354 |
| 1924 | — | — | 14 | #2,283 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,502 |
| 1922 | — | — | 15 | #2,182 |
| 1921 | — | — | 22 | #1,672 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,782 |
| 1919 | — | — | 23 | #1,547 |
| 1918 | — | — | 23 | #1,560 |
| 1917 | — | — | 20 | #1,664 |
| 1916 | — | — | 27 | #1,314 |
| 1915 | — | — | 23 | #1,430 |
| 1914 | — | — | 17 | #1,513 |
| 1913 | — | — | 16 | #1,336 |
| 1912 | — | — | 13 | #1,384 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,325 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,686 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,114 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #898 |
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).