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Gia vs Giavonna

American parents have registered 22,700 Gias since 1880, against 1,310 Giavonnas. Gia is still ahead, with 1,069 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gia against Giavonna, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gia Giavonna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Gia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Gia had 50 and Giavonna had 16.

Side by side

  Gia Giavonna
Total US births 22,7001,310
Most in one year 1,19565
Babies in 2025 1,06925
Estimated living today 22,0001,300
Median age today 1115
Peak year 20242006
Best rank 268th girls2,728th girls
Rank in 2025 287th5,099th
First recorded 19571986
Girls / boys 22,695 / 51,310 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Giavonnas alive today are over 15; half the Gias are over 11. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gia and Giavonna.