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Gioele vs Gionni

American parents have registered 2,049 Gionnis since 1880, against 10 Gioeles. Gionni is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gioele against Gionni, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gioele 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

Gionni has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Gioele had 5 and Gionni had 89.

Side by side

  Gioele Gionni
Total US births 102,049
Most in one year 5191
Babies in 2025 under 557
Estimated living today 102,000
Median age today 39
Peak year 20162012
Best rank 12,185th boys1,040th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,641st
First recorded 20161991
Girls / boys 0 / 10141 / 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 Gioeles are over 3. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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