Gianna
Gianna was given to 5,634 girls in 2025, #33 among girls’ names; 110,388 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 109,000 Americans named Gianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gianna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gianna is “a female given name from Italian or Greek.”
Borrowed from Italian Gianna and Greek Γιάννα (Giánna). Doublet of Jane.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gianna?
#33 among girls’ names, 2025
Gianna rose from #96 in 2015 to #33 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.8 to 3.5 per 1,000.
7,910 babies in 2020, the peak
Gianna peaked in 2020, when 7,910 babies were given it (7,903 girls, #13 among girls’ names). The 5,634 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,634 | #33 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 6,131 | #23 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 6,146 | #21 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 6,419 | #22 | 3.9 |
| 2021 | 7,477 | #13 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 7,903 | #13 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 3,424 | #79 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 3,451 | #80 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 3,199 | #91 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 3,226 | #92 | 1.8 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,183 | #96 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 3,082 | #95 | 1.7 |
| 2013 | 3,442 | #87 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 3,627 | #73 | 2.1 |
| 2011 | 4,071 | #63 | 2.3 |
| 2010 | 3,960 | #67 | 2.2 |
| 2009 | 3,939 | #76 | 2.1 |
| 2008 | 3,669 | #88 | 1.9 |
| 2007 | 3,713 | #91 | 1.9 |
| 2006 | 3,454 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 2005 | 2,962 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 2004 | 2,727 | #124 | 1.5 |
| 2003 | 2,311 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 2002 | 1,985 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 1,765 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 1,333 | #240 | 0.73 |
| 1999 | 1,307 | #241 | 0.74 |
| 1998 | 1,177 | #264 | 0.67 |
| 1997 | 771 | #357 | 0.44 |
| 1996 | 656 | #402 | 0.37 |
| 1995 | 617 | #420 | 0.35 |
| 1994 | 491 | #503 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 430 | #553 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 365 | #620 | 0.20 |
| 1991 | 327 | #664 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 227 | #863 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 209 | #878 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,303 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,183 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 89 | #1,442 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,412 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,794 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,543 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,929 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,211 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,051 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,955 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,711 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,007 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,032 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,289 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,146 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,937 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,188 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,916 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,132 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,715 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,381 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,893 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,025 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,761 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,513 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,672 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,157 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,650 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,776 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,516 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,702 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gianna has been given almost only to girls: 73 boys in 72 years of records.
Girls and boys named Gianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gianna, and how old are they?
109,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 110,388 Americans ever recorded as Gianna. The median Gianna alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 64,221 people named Gianna (64,103 women and girls, 118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 72,025 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 161 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 621 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 42,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 62,400 |
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 Gianna born?
The states with the most babies named Gianna are California, Texas and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 990 | #14 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 756 | #18 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 433 | #21 | 1.3× |
| New York | 318 | #31 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 216 | #19 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 190 | #21 | 2.6× |
| Arizona | 189 | #15 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 185 | #37 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 168 | #44 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 154 | #42 | 0.5× |
Where Gianna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gianna is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1951 it was given 2.6 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 Gianna 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 285,114 babies since 1880, Gianna is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5,634 of their 6,145 babies (92%), the most given that year.
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 Gianna
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 Gianna and names like it
- Compare Gianna and GinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGianna peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gianna since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Gianna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Gianna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gianna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.