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Gio vs Gionni

American parents have registered 2,049 Gionnis since 1880, against 1,615 Gios. But in 2025 it was Gio that was commoner, 206 babies to 57.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gio against Gionni, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gio Gionni

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

Of the 31 years in which either name was published, Gionni for 25 years and Gio for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Gio Gionni
Total US births 1,6152,049
Most in one year 206191
Babies in 2025 20657
Estimated living today 1,6002,000
Median age today 49
Peak year 20252012
Best rank 1,091st boys1,040th boys
Rank in 2025 1,091st2,641st
First recorded 20011991
Girls / boys 43 / 1,572141 / 1,908

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 Gionnis alive today are over 9; half the Gios are over 4. That is 5 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: Gio and Gionni.