Gian
Gian was given to 244 boys in 2025, #956 among boys’ names; 5,033 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,920 Americans named Gian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gian mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Gian is “part of compound given names such as Gianmarco or Gianluca; John”
From a contraction of Giovan, shortened form of the given name Giovanni (cognate with English John). Compare Sicilian Giu(v)à.
/ˈd͡ʒan/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gian?
#956 among boys’ names, 2025
Gian rose from #1,220 in 2015 to #956 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.14 per 1,000.
328 babies in 2023, the peak
Gian peaked in 2023, when 328 boys were given it, #777 among boys’ names. The 244 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 244 | #956 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 264 | #897 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 328 | #777 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 250 | #924 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 234 | #958 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,202 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 129 | #1,384 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,230 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,388 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 141 | #1,290 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 151 | #1,220 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,391 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,515 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 114 | #1,450 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,378 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,385 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,311 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 151 | #1,181 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 132 | #1,307 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,157 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 124 | #1,261 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 142 | #1,114 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 120 | #1,219 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 126 | #1,132 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 77 | #1,563 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 75 | #1,572 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,885 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,854 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 53 | #1,796 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 47 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,783 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,614 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 54 | #1,639 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,185 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 52 | #1,614 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 42 | #1,847 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,834 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,793 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 37 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 33 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,129 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,106 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,332 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,312 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,702 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,271 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,680 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,766 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,467 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,608 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,780 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,068 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,117 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,399 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,923 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,463 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,017 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gian, and how old are they?
4,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,033 Americans ever recorded as Gian. The median Gian alive today is 14 years old; half are between 5 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,626 people named Gian (447 women and girls, 4,179 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,521 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 563 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,390 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gian born?
The states with the most babies named Gian are Texas, Florida and California, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 44 | #672 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 33 | #535 | 2.5× |
| California | 29 | #834 | 1.2× |
| New York | 22 | #670 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #585 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 9 | #941 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 9 | #760 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 8 | #745 | 0.7× |
| Connecticut | 8 | #365 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 7 | #707 | 0.1× |
Where Gian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gian is most over-represented in Florida: since 1953 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,431 babies since 1880, Gian is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 244 of their 274 babies (89%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gian
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gian and names like it
- Compare Gian and GyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGian peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gian since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Gian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Gian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.