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Jionni vs Jiovanny

American parents have registered 1,488 Jionnis since 1880, against 459 Jiovannys. Jionni is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jionni against Jiovanny, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jionni Jiovanny

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

Of the 33 years in which either name was published, Jiovanny for 18 years and Jionni for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jionni Jiovanny
Total US births 1,488459
Most in one year 24927
Babies in 2025 339
Estimated living today 1,500450
Median age today 1017
Peak year 20122007
Best rank 868th boys3,793rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,450th8,243rd
First recorded 20111990
Girls / boys 49 / 1,4390 / 459

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 Jiovannys alive today are over 17; half the Jionnis are over 10. That is 7 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.

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