Giovana
Giovana was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,373 among girls’ names; 881 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Giovana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Giovana mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Giovana is “a female given name”
Borrowed from Italian Giovanna. Doublet of Joana, which was inherited from Latin, of Ivana and Jeane, borrowings from Russian and French, respectively.
/ʒi.oˈvɐ̃.nɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Giovana?
#10,373 among girls’ names, 2025
Giovana fell from #8,619 in 2015 to #10,373 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 5.6 per million.
46 babies in 2001, the peak
Giovana peaked in 2001, when 46 girls were given it, #3,059 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,373 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,725 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,545 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,214 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,645 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,118 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,477 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,213 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,628 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,139 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,619 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,305 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,811 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,589 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,267 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,154 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,649 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,619 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,242 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,994 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,754 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,202 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,430 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,837 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,059 | 25.5 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,697 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,622 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,062 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,470 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,608 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,279 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,577 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,896 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,581 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,352 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,235 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,127 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,920 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,567 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,772 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,707 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,966 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,907 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,535 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,900 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,216 | 6.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,697 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Giovana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Giovana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Giovana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Giovana, and how old are they?
An estimated 868 Americans named Giovana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,733 people named Giovana (1,709 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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).
Where are babies named Giovana born?
The states with the most babies named Giovana are California, Texas and Florida, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 170 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 33 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Giovana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Giovana is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.4 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 Giovana 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 21,769 babies since 1880, Giovana is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 567 babies (1.6%), the fourth 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 Giovana
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 Giovana and names like it
- Compare Giovana and GiovannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGiovana peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Giovana since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Giovana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Giovana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Giovana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.