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Giovanna vs Giovannie

American parents have registered 14,135 Giovannas since 1880, against 720 Giovannies. Giovanna is still ahead, with 304 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giovanna against Giovannie, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giovanna Giovannie

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

Giovanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1904 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Giovanna had 159 and Giovannie had 23.

Side by side

  Giovanna Giovannie
Total US births 14,135720
Most in one year 40838
Babies in 2025 30410
Estimated living today 13,000710
Median age today 2019
Peak year 20052010
Best rank 681st girls3,014th boys
Rank in 2025 878th7,679th
First recorded 19041981
Girls / boys 14,135 / 06 / 714

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.

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: Giovanna and Giovannie.