Gianluca
Gianluca was given to 181 boys in 2025, #1,156 among boys’ names; 3,915 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,870 Americans named Gianluca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gianluca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gianluca mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gianluca is “a male given name from Italian.” Its etymology gives the sense “John-Luke” (literally).
From Italian Gianluca (literally “John-Luke”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gianluca?
#1,156 among boys’ names, 2025
Gianluca rose from #1,604 in 2015 to #1,156 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
207 babies in 2017, the peak
Gianluca peaked in 2017, when 207 boys were given it, #988 among boys’ names. The 181 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 181 | #1,156 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 158 | #1,253 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 187 | #1,132 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 206 | #1,067 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 180 | #1,131 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 150 | #1,242 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,138 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 186 | #1,071 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 207 | #988 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 166 | #1,158 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,604 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,181 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 150 | #1,195 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,253 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,288 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,474 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,319 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,289 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 154 | #1,155 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,231 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,308 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,367 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 69 | #1,749 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 64 | #1,795 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,824 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,446 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 53 | #1,863 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,412 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,509 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,233 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,596 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,365 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,381 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,497 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,700 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,277 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,689 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,949 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,598 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gianluca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gianluca has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gianluca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gianluca, and how old are they?
3,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,915 Americans ever recorded as Gianluca. The median Gianluca alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,050 people named Gianluca (10 women and girls, 3,040 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,860 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 165 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,180 |
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 Gianluca born?
The states with the most babies named Gianluca are Florida, California and New Jersey, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 36 | #502 | 2.5× |
| California | 22 | #998 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #400 | 3.1× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,113 | 0.7× |
| New York | 17 | #811 | 2.8× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,065 | 1.3× |
| Connecticut | 7 | #409 | 2.2× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #727 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,341 | 0.2× |
| Utah | 5 | #739 | 0.1× |
Where Gianluca is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gianluca is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1971 it was given 3.1 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 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 Gianluca 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,121 babies since 1880, Gianluca is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 181 of their 199 babies (91%), 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 Gianluca
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 Gianluca and names like it
- Compare Gianluca and GianluccaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGianluca peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gianluca since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Gianluca: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Gianluca.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gianluca alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.