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Giona vs Gionni

American parents have registered 2,049 Gionnis since 1880, against 59 Gionas. Gionni is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Giona 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 2004, when Giona had 6 and Gionni had 15.

Side by side

  Giona Gionni
Total US births 592,049
Most in one year 9191
Babies in 2025 under 557
Estimated living today 602,000
Median age today 189
Peak year 20082012
Best rank 11,599th girls1,040th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,641st
First recorded 20021991
Girls / boys 59 / 0141 / 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 Gionas alive today are over 18; half the Gionnis are over 9. That is 9 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: Giona and Gionni.