Gianni
Gianni is given to both girls and boys: 164 girls and 571 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,351 among girls’ names and #524 among boys’, #866 among all names counting both); 18,916 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,700 Americans named Gianni 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 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gianni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gianni mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Gianni is “a diminutive of the male given name Giovanni, equivalent to English Johnny”
/ˈd͡ʒan.ni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gianni?
#524 among boys’ names, 2025
Gianni rose from #564 in 2015 to #524 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.26 to 0.33 per 1,000.
1,139 babies in 2020, the peak
Gianni peaked in 2020, when 1,139 babies were given it (897 boys, #354 among boys’ names). The 735 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 164 | #1,351 | 571 | #524 |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,225 | 641 | #483 |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,179 | 691 | #448 |
| 2022 | 213 | #1,143 | 853 | #380 |
| 2021 | 254 | #1,008 | 821 | #390 |
| 2020 | 242 | #1,040 | 897 | #354 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,658 | 683 | #447 |
| 2018 | 126 | #1,665 | 751 | #417 |
| 2017 | 114 | #1,818 | 536 | #527 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,813 | 449 | #601 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,569 | 501 | #564 |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,452 | 539 | #521 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,333 | 503 | #529 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,664 | 608 | #448 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,282 | 499 | #517 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,189 | 431 | #583 |
| 2009 | 104 | #1,995 | 486 | #543 |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,324 | 483 | #544 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,899 | 443 | #579 |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,276 | 390 | #611 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,460 | 417 | #566 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,159 | 336 | #629 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,325 | 302 | #656 |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,146 | 250 | #710 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,468 | 214 | #788 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,786 | 235 | #729 |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,076 | 226 | #723 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,753 | 351 | #561 |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,749 | 240 | #677 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,310 | 110 | #1,092 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,912 | 74 | #1,366 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,280 | 94 | #1,180 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,708 | 81 | #1,258 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,580 | 71 | #1,338 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,050 | 77 | #1,268 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,016 | 49 | #1,665 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,724 | 34 | #2,077 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,917 | 21 | #2,709 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,244 | 43 | #1,619 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,306 | 31 | #1,934 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,705 | 21 | #2,451 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,449 | 20 | #2,467 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,326 | 32 | #1,765 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,525 | 34 | #1,712 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 29 | #1,914 | |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,446 | 30 | #1,876 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 27 | #1,962 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 21 | #2,235 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 22 | #2,149 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 28 | #1,799 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 27 | #1,805 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 32 | #1,555 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 25 | #1,792 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 9 | #3,436 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 22 | #1,944 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 17 | #2,236 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 11 | #2,753 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 16 | #2,060 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 9 | #2,850 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,860 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,358 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 7 | #3,425 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Gianni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 18,916 Americans recorded as Gianni, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gianni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gianni, and how old are they?
18,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,916 Americans ever recorded as Gianni. The median Gianni alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 11,406 people named Gianni (1,752 women and girls, 9,654 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,297 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 288 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,300 |
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 Gianni born?
The states with the most babies named Gianni are Texas, California and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 73 | #596 | 0.8× |
| California | 72 | #487 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 67 | #381 | 1.7× |
| New York | 63 | #327 | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 40 | #273 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 29 | #548 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 28 | #480 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 28 | #637 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 25 | #503 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #513 | 1.1× |
Where Gianni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gianni is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1962 it was given 1.8 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 Gianni 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 21,870 babies since 1880, Gianni is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 735 of their 823 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 Gianni
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 Gianni and names like it
- Compare Gianni and GionniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGianni peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gianni since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Gianni: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Gianni.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gianni alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.