Gio
Gio was given to 197 boys in 2025, #1,091 among boys’ names; 1,615 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Gio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gio mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gio is “a diminutive of the male given names Giovanni, Giovani, Giorgi, Giorgio, Giuseppe, and Sergio, from Italian.”
From Italian Gio.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gio?
#1,091 among boys’ names, 2025
Gio rose from #2,654 in 2015 to #1,091 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.12 per 1,000.
206 babies in 2025, the peak
Gio peaked in 2025, when 206 babies were given it (197 boys, #1,091 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 179 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 197 | #1,091 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 179 | #1,166 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 181 | #1,153 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 170 | #1,188 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 136 | #1,360 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,661 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 93 | #1,703 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,964 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,358 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,487 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,654 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,592 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,146 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,836 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,192 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,583 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,524 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,739 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,745 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,789 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,993 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,680 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,615 Americans recorded as Gio, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 197 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gio, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,615 Americans ever recorded as Gio. The median Gio alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 2,263 people named Gio (142 women and girls, 2,121 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 637 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Gio rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 214 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,390 |
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 Gio born?
The states with the most babies named Gio are California, Florida and New York, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 30 | #818 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 19 | #784 | 1.1× |
| New York | 16 | #858 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,267 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #723 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 9 | #942 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,051 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 7 | #802 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #963 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,181 | 0.7× |
Where Gio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gio is most over-represented in New York: since 2001 it was given 1.6 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 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 Gio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gio
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 Gio and names like it
- Compare Gio and AgastyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGio peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gio since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Gio.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gio alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.