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Giona vs Giovanny

American parents have registered 6,752 Giovannys since 1880, against 59 Gionas. Giovanny is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giona against Giovanny, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giona Giovanny

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

Giovanny has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Giona had 6 and Giovanny had 175.

Side by side

  Giona Giovanny
Total US births 596,752
Most in one year 9399
Babies in 2025 under 578
Estimated living today 606,600
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20082010
Best rank 11,599th girls618th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,959th
First recorded 20021973
Girls / boys 59 / 030 / 6,722

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Giona Giovanny
France 51,190

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: Giona and Giovanny.