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Giorgia vs Giovanni

American parents have registered 90,351 Giovannis since 1880, against 535 Giorgias. Giovanni is still ahead, with 2,955 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giorgia against Giovanni, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giorgia Giovanni

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

Giovanni has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1907 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Giorgia had 51 and Giovanni had 2,955.

Side by side

  Giorgia Giovanni
Total US births 53590,351
Most in one year 513,445
Babies in 2025 512,955
Estimated living today 53088,000
Median age today 914
Peak year 20252010
Best rank 3,130th girls117th boys
Rank in 2025 3,130th123rd
First recorded 19911907
Girls / boys 535 / 0983 / 89,368

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 Giovannis alive today are over 14; half the Giorgias are over 9. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Giorgia Giovanni
Italy 110,64483,700
France 70012,285
England and Wales 6291,329
Belgium 264859
Switzerland 689420
Poland 19137
Scotland 4060
Ireland 1844

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: Giorgia and Giovanni.