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Giada vs Gianna

American parents have registered 110,388 Giannas since 1880, against 4,720 Giadas. Gianna is still ahead, with 5,634 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giada against Gianna, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giada Gianna

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

Gianna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1951 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Giada had 374 and Gianna had 3,939.

Side by side

  Giada Gianna
Total US births 4,720110,388
Most in one year 3747,910
Babies in 2025 1505,634
Estimated living today 4,700109,000
Median age today 1310
Peak year 20092020
Best rank 763rd girls13th girls
Rank in 2025 1,436th33rd
First recorded 19991951
Girls / boys 4,720 / 0110,315 / 73

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 Giadas alive today are over 13; half the Giannas are over 10. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Giada Gianna
Italy 60,623454
Switzerland 1,0231,077
England and Wales 911,154
France 165510
Belgium 20161
Ireland 383

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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