Giannina
Giannina was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,018 among girls’ names; 531 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Giannina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Giannina mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Giannina is “a diminutive of the female given name Giovanna, equivalent to English Joan or Jane”
From Gianna (itself a shortening of Giovanna) + -ina (diminutive suffix).
/d͡ʒanˈni.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Giannina?
#5,018 among girls’ names, 2025
Giannina rose from #11,210 in 2015 to #5,018 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 16.2 per million.
45 babies in 2022, the peak
Giannina peaked in 2022, when 45 girls were given it, #3,498 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,018 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,600 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,493 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,498 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,350 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,067 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,376 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,733 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,210 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,430 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,389 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,611 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,694 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,802 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,684 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,964 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,139 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,132 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,917 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,244 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,994 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,952 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,131 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,017 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,342 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,969 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,691 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,351 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,589 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,310 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,918 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,048 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,307 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,182 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,799 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,740 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,602 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,410 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,477 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,134 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,039 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Giannina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Giannina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Giannina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Giannina, and how old are they?
An estimated 522 Americans named Giannina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 4 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 783 people named Giannina (779 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 329 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 111,810 babies since 1880, Giannina is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 5,692 babies (<1%), the second 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 Giannina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Stormi | 4,184 |
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 Giannina and names like it
- Compare Giannina and GiannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGiannina peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Giannina since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Giannina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Giannina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Giannina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.