Gianella
Gianella was given to 86 girls in 2025, #2,160 among girls’ names; 1,147 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Gianella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gianella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gianella?
#2,160 among girls’ names, 2025
Gianella rose from #4,172 in 2015 to #2,160 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 53.5 per million.
98 babies in 2023, the peak
Gianella peaked in 2023, when 98 girls were given it, #2,006 among girls’ names. The 86 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,160 | 53.5 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,019 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,006 | 61.1 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,335 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,824 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,037 | 32.8 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,189 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,068 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,652 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,253 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,172 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,951 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,870 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,159 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,607 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,013 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,635 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,639 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,403 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,601 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,088 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,109 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,149 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,536 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,062 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,288 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,385 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,993 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,517 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,345 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,302 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gianella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gianella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gianella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gianella, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,147 Americans ever recorded as Gianella. The median Gianella alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 780 people named Gianella (779 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 734 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 403 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 724 |
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 Gianella born?
The states with the most babies named Gianella are Florida, Texas and New York, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 13 | #1,140 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,837 | 0.8× |
| New York | 11 | #1,263 | 1.6× |
| California | 8 | #2,350 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #878 | 2.1× |
Where Gianella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gianella is most over-represented in Florida: since 1994 it was given 2.1 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 girls’ 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 Gianella 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,926 babies since 1880, Gianella is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 86 of their 106 babies (81%), 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 Gianella
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 Gianella and names like it
- Compare Gianella and GinelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGianella peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gianella since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Gianella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gianella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.